The Fascination with Neanderthals Begins For many, the name Neanderthals conjures images of hairy, robust humans who walked ...

For those variants that did modulate gene expression, the researchers ascertained which of the two versions of the variant—the Neanderthal (or introgressed) allele, or the modern human one—did so.

Ancestors or Relics? Neanderthals have long fascinated scientists and the general public alike. Are they our distant ...

It is estimated that 1% to 3% of people have DNA that can be linked to Neanderthals, and the studies also shed light on these genes. Some, like "those related to the immune system, were beneficial ...

One of the great mysteries of human evolution is the intermediate step represented by the presence of Neanderthals for ...

Potential skull elongation was also associated with Neanderthal variants located near GPR26, a lesser understood gene that may be involve in the regulation of neurons. Gunz and colleagues did not ...

Genetic material recovered from 40,000-year-old human bones unearthed in Romania harbors about 6-9 percent Neanderthal DNA, the study reports. Some of this DNA was contained in three relatively large ...

"Neanderthals have an Rh blood group that is ... Mazières and colleagues found that the Rh gene variants found in many people today come from early Homo sapiens ancestors, who appear to have ...

Interbreeding may have helped early modern humans adapt quickly to new environments, by acquiring genes from Neanderthals who had lived there for many thousands of years. Some of the DNA is found in ...

For years, scientists have known that Neanderthals and modern humans interbred, leaving behind genetic traces that still ...

July 11, 2024 — Using genomes from 2,000 living humans as well as three Neanderthals and one Denisovan, an international team mapped the gene flow between the hominin groups over the past ...

But what can the genes of Neanderthals tell us about ourselves? Show more From his early work with Egyptian mummies to his breath taking achievement of sequencing the genome of our nearest ancient ...