Most humans alive today can trace a very small percentage of their DNA to Neanderthals. However, Neanderthal DNA is slightly more abundant in the genomes of certain populations.

The Fascination with Neanderthals Begins For many, the name Neanderthals conjures images of hairy, robust humans who walked ...

You may have more Neanderthal DNA than you think A new model upends old assumptions, revealing more Neanderthal ancestry for both modern Africans and Europeans than once thought. By Maya Wei-Haas ...

Most of us have a little bit of Neanderthal DNA. Far from being the lumbering brutes that we once thought they were, a slew of recent studies suggest Neanderthals not only interacted with Homo ...

The skull of a 5-year-old girl who lived 140,000 years ago has similarities with modern Homo sapiens and Neanderthals, ...

Most humans alive today can trace a very small percentage of their DNA to Neanderthals — a result of prehistoric sexual encounters between our ancestors and the now-extinct Stone Age hominins ...

New research suggests that modern conditions may trace back to Neanderthal skull traits we share with our extinct cousins.

Most of this Neanderthal DNA arrived in a 7,000-year period about 47,000 years ago, after modern humans came out of Africa into Europe, and before Neanderthals became extinct about 30,000 years ago.

"A number of studies have shown that Neanderthal DNA can have a beneficial impact," Sankararaman said. "The most striking example is a region in a gene BNC2 associated with skin and hair color ...

A new DNA model suggests humans didn't reach Australia until 50,000 years ago, but archaeological data disagrees.

(CNN) — A new analysis of ancient genomes is deepening scientists’ understanding of the Neanderthal DNA carried by human populations in Europe and Asia — genetic traces that may have medical ...