Neandertal DNA may affect the color of our skin and hair, how readily our blood clots, our propensity for heart disease, and how our cells respond to various environmental stressors such as radiation.

Finding Neandertal ancestors in the human family tree was shocking enough when researchers announced it in 2010. Now the implications for modern-day people carrying surviving Neandertal DNA may ...

An ochre dot in Spain may hold one of the oldest, most complete Neandertal fingerprints, hinting at symbolic behavior in our ancient relatives.

When a Neandertal Met a Denisovan, What Happened Was Only Human Scientists describe the hybrid child of two starkly different human groups By Richard Conniff ...

In Café Neandertal, Bahrami follows this compelling riddle along a path populated with colorful local personalities and archaeologists working in remote and fascinating places across Eurasia, all the ...

What Neandertal DNA can teach about race, autism, and more Insights about human origins derived from studies of our ancestors' DNA might also illuminate some of our current social woes.

Neandertal gene variants both increase and decrease the risk for severe COVID-19 Date: February 16, 2021 Source: Karolinska Institutet Summary: Last year, researchers showed that a major genetic ...

And so, in honor of Valentine’s Day—a day centered on love in all forms—it’s worth discussing what we know about how Neandertals love. [Author’s note: One of the earliest Neandertal fossils was ...

The wound that ultimately killed a Neandertal man between 50,000 and 75,000 years was most likely caused by a thrown spear, the kind modern humans used but Neandertals did not, according to new ...

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and 454 Life Sciences Corporation unveil plan to sequence the Neandertal Genome ...