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

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

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

Human DNA recovered from remains found in Europe is revealing our species’ shared history with Neanderthals. The trove is the ...

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

Researchers on the hunt to settle a long-standing debate ended up rewriting the timeline of ancient human history ... Ecology and Evolution and paints a very different picture of history.

While Neanderthals and modern humans lived together in Europe for only a relatively short time, two separate studies found ...

Papers published in the journals Nature and Science have used the bones to narrow down when Neanderthals and H. sapiens ...

Research published in Nature Ecology & Evolution introduces a novel method for inferring DNA methylation patterns in non-skeletal tissues from ancient specimens, providing new insights into human ...