Part of an adult Neandertal’s skeleton was found in a manner that suggests intentional burial The excavation of an adult Neandertal’s partial upper-body skeleton in Iraqi Kurdistan has revived a ...

This press release is available in German, French, Spanish, Chinese and Japanese. An international research team has sequenced the Neandertal genome, using pill-sized samples of bone powder from three ...

The researchers identified regions with Neandertal ancestry in over 300 individuals. They assessed sharing of segments, inferred gene flow, and looked at variation to identify candidates for positive ...

Some people don’t just have a caveman mentality; they may actually carry a little relic of the Stone Age in their DNA. A new study of the Neandertal genome shows that humans and Neandertals interbred.

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Some 60,000 years ago, in a small limestone ...

Researchers in Germany and the United States have announced an ambitious plan to complete a first draft of the Neandertal genome within the next two years. As a trial, the collaborators have already ...

A stretch of Neandertal DNA has been associated with some cases of severe COVID-19, but it’s unclear how much of a risk it poses. Christopher Intagliata reports. The risk factors for COVID-19 are many ...

Re-examination of a circa 100,000-year-old archaic early human skull found 35 years ago in Northern China has revealed the surprising presence of an inner-ear formation long thought to occur only in ...

Need DNA? No body? No problem. New research in Science by an international team of researchers lead by Viviane Slon at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany has shown a ...

Up to 4 percent of the DNA of people today who live outside ­Africa came from Neandertals, the result of interbreeding between Neandertals and early modern humans. That conclusion comes from ...

Paleoanthropologists used to pray that they would unearth big troves of intact Neandertal skeletons and well-preserved artifacts that they could comb for clues to the origins of the human race. But ...

Frederick L. Coolidge, PhD and Karenleigh A. Overmann, DPhil are co-editors of the book, Squeezing Minds from Stones (2019) Source: Karenleigh A. Overmann Frederick L. Coolidge and Karenleigh A.