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

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 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.

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.

A small percentage of Neandertal ancestry is common in all modern human populations outside Africa; some Denisovan lineage is also common among people from east Asia and Oceania.

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 ...

Neandertal genome yields evidence of interbreeding with humans After years of looking, geneticists are shocked to find a link ...

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 ...

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

An international research team has sequenced the Neandertal genome, using pill-sized samples of bone powder from three Neandertal bones found in a cave in Croatia.