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A new radiocarbon reassessment has established that the so-called Lapedo child from central Portugal was buried approximately ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new study shows how three Neanderthal DNA variants strengthened a key enhancer for jaw development, offering fresh insight into ...

Neanderthal DNA is 99.7% identical to our own, and researchers claim that some humans might be carrying as much as 2% of the ...

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Every human face is unique, allowing us to distinguish between individuals. We know little about how facial features are encoded in our DNA, but we may be able to learn more about how our faces ...

The French paleoanthropologist discusses his book ‘The Last Neanderthal,’ and provides clues about his latest discovery: ...

Neanderthals disappeared from the fossil record approximately 40,000 years ago. Their extinction was a gradual process over thousands of years, and theories as to why include competition with modern ...

Neanderthals died out some 30,000 years ago, but their genes live on within many of us. African people have very little Neanderthal DNA because their ancestors didn't make the trip through Eurasia, ...

If you have diabetes, you may have a Neanderthal to thank/blame, according to recent genome studies. Science and Nature today published independent studies of Neanderthal DNA, both of which shed some ...