Two 7,000-year-old mummies from the Takarkori rock shelter in the Sahara have been found to be from a group with a previously ...

Imagine standing face-to-face with a Neanderthal, looking into eyes that reflect a world both alien and achingly familiar.

Less good is the fact that Neanderthal DNA can leave individuals predisposed to developing skin lesions called keratoses, ...

Genetic research shows that most people outside of Africa have about 2% Neanderthal DNA,' says Prof Stringer. 'We think that the modern humans who spread into Asia around 60,000 years ago interbred ...

The ability to sequence Neanderthal DNA provided concrete evidence of ... Non-African populations, in particular, have the ...

When he was 13, his mother, a food chemist in Stockholm, yielded to her son's most frequent request ... to explore the past by analyzing human DNA. He has helped show that human groups—southern ...

Currently a harsh, arid sandscape, it's hard to believe the Sahara was once studded with sparkling water bodies that ...

it has been postulated that "purifying selection" against maintenance of the bulk of this DNA was responsible for its elimination. But the persistence of even the small amount of Neanderthal DNA ...