A Neanderthal skull from Forbes' Quarry, Gibraltar. (AquilaGib/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0) Genetic deterioration may not have been the major cause of Neanderthal extinction, new evidence suggests ...

Genomic analysis of ancient and modern human DNA has exposed a striking pattern in how Neanderthal genes entered the human ...

When I explain my research interests to new acquaintances, I’m often asked questions like “what would you do if you met a ...

Until recently, the idea of cloning a Neanderthal seemed exclusively a science fiction plot. However, today such issues are ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Neanderthal man at a human evolution exhibit at the Natural History Museum in London. There’s less Neanderthal DNA on humans’ X ...

For a long time, the last Neanderthals in Europe were pictured as a genetically diverse bunch, scattered across the continent ...

DNA recovered from remains in Belgium and France offers a very different picture of Neanderthal life during the species’ final millennia.

A new genetic analysis has offered a fascinating glimpse into the ancient encounters between humans and Neanderthals, suggesting a surprising pattern in their interbreeding. While it has long been ...

3D models of Homo sapiens (top two images) and Homo neanderthalensis (bottom two images) crania for visual comparison. The human model was created from DICOM files of an anonymized volunteer patient ...

Every human face is unique, allowing us to distinguish between individuals. We know little about how facial features are encoded in our DNA, but we may be able to learn more about how our faces ...

Every face carries a story, shaped long before birth by a quiet choreography of genes switching on and off at just the right moment. A new study suggests that part of that story reaches far back into ...