New study shows that a genetic variant inherited from Neandertals impairs the function of a key enzyme involved in muscle ...

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 ...

Neandertal Genome To Be Deciphered Date: July 20, 2006 Source: Max Planck Society Summary: Researchers in Germany and the United States have announced an ambitious plan to complete a first draft ...

What Neandertal DNA can teach about race, autism, and more Written by John Rennie, Contributor Sept. 3, 2012 at 8:00 p.m. PT Replica of the analyzed bone fragment from the Denisovan girl ...

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

Asked if Denisova 11 might have simply been the offspring of a mixed Neandertal–Denisovan population—rather than of a mother and father of two such starkly separate backgrounds—Rogers says, ...

Human Spear Likely Cause Of Death Of Neandertal Date: July 22, 2009 Source: Duke University Summary: The wound that ultimately killed a Neandertal man between 50,000 and 75,000 years was most ...

By Beebe Bahrami (MCDBio'86) (Counterpoint, 300 pages; 2017) Buy the Book Centered in the Dordogne region of southwestern France, one of Europe’s most concentrated regions for Neandertal and early ...

Neandertals, historically, have gotten a bad rap (which they do not deserve!). In her 2020 book, Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death, and Art, Rebecca Wragg Sykes reflects on the Neandertal legacy, ...