The Neanderthal DNA found in modern human genomes has long raised questions about ancient interbreeding. New studies offer a ...

Africans. Scientists analyzed the lengths of regions of Neanderthal DNA in 58 ancient Eurasian genomes of early modern humans and determined that the introgressed genes result from interbreeding ...

Ancient DNA research suggests that our non-African ancestors mixed with Neandertals about 50,000 years ago, resulting in one ...

Two new studies have helped narrow down the time during which Neanderthals interbred with modern humans to a period starting ...

Neanderthals and humans likely mixed and mingled during a narrow time frame 45,000 years ago, scientists reported Thursday.

New research refines the timeline of interbreeding between modern humans and Neanderthals, showing it began about 50,500 ...

Analysis of early modern human genomes suggests that Neanderthal DNA was introduced to populations in Europe around 43,500 to ...

Learn how scientists examined DNA to find out the duration of Neanderthal-human interbreeding and track down the Neanderthal ...

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Most of us have Neanderthal ancestors, and now scientists how revealed important details about how their DNA shape us today.

A groundbreaking study has revealed that Neanderthals and modern humans (Homo sapiens) interbred for a period of around 7,000 ...