There, they encountered our closest, now-extinct human relatives — the Neanderthals ... more commonly found in people with prevalent Native American ancestry. "It makes much more sense that ...

If your recent ancestry lies outside of Africa, you can safely assume that you carry some Neanderthal DNA. Human origins expert Professor Chris Stringer discusses what this Neanderthal inheritance may ...

Scientists have previously suggested Neanderthal DNA was gradually removed from modern human genomes during the last 45,000 years. But a new study, published last week in PNAS, reports that ...