According to the experts, humans will look a lot more uniform in the future. They predict the average person will have darker ...

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

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

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

The findings, published in Scientific Reports, highlight the role of genetic diversity in shaping the success of modern humans compared to Neanderthals. The study analyzed the blood group genes of 22 ...

There has been some incredible research into the role this DNA plays in modern human neurodevelopment, so here's an overview ...

Maybe it’s because 23andMe claimed I have “more Neanderthal DNA than 81 percent of other customers.” (That’s only ~2 percent of my genes, but my older brother happily quipped he could tell me I’m a ...

Published in the journal Scientific Reports, the study compares the genes of the blood groups of Homo sapiens and Neanderthals to better understand our history as a species. Blood groups, such as ABO ...

Selection for advantageous Neanderthal genes ensured that they were passed down and retained in human populations, providing a survival toolkit that enabled our ancestors to thrive in new and ...

This happens through a process called epigenetics, whereby certain genes are expressed to a greater or lesser extent depending on a person’s surroundings. Abused children, for instance ...