There, they encountered our closest, now-extinct human relatives — the Neanderthals ... more commonly found in people with ...

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 ...

He has helped show that human groups—southern Africans, Western Europeans, Native Americans—are closely ... scientist to analyze segments of DNA from Neanderthal bones, Paabo now wants to ...

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 ...