A cast of a Neanderthal skull at the Chemnitz State Museum of Archaeology in Germany. New research delves into when humans and Neanderthals interbred. Hendrik Schmidt / picture alliance via Getty ...

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After modern humans left Africa, they met and interbred with Neanderthals, resulting in around 2–3% Neanderthal DNA that can be found in the genomes of all people outside Africa today. However, little ...

NEW YORK -- Humans and Neanderthals cozied up from time to time when they lived in the same areas tens of thousands of years ago. But we don't know much about who got with whom, or why. A new genetic ...

The mysterious disappearance of our Neanderthal cousins may have been related to preeclampsia, a life-threatening complication of pregnancy and/or the postpartum period, doctors propose in a new study ...

Neanderthals have become unlikely test cases for the limits of generative AI. A new wave of research argues that when chatbots and image generators try to recreate our ancient cousins, they reveal how ...

Learn how genomes across Japan show traces of a previously overlooked ancestral group alongside Neanderthal and Denisovan DNA linked to modern diseases and drug responses. A third ancestral group may ...