Ancient DNA is turning human prehistory into something startlingly intimate. Instead of a clean handoff from one species to another, the last 50,000 years look more like a long, tangled story of ...

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

Every face carries a story, shaped long before birth by a quiet choreography of genes switching on and off at just the right moment. A new study suggests that part of that story reaches far back into ...

The Neanderthal Connection Every person alive today carries traces of Neanderthal DNA, typically around 2% of their genome. This genetic legacy comes from interbreeding events between Homo sapiens and ...

When scientists sequenced the Neanderthal genome in 2010, they learned that Neanderthals interbred with human ancestors before mysteriously going extinct. As a result, many people alive today share up ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A 75,000-year-old Neanderthal skull from Iraq known as Shanidar Z. A new study finds that ...

3D models of Homo sapiens (top two images) and Homo neanderthalensis (bottom two images) crania for visual comparison. The human model was created from DICOM files of an anonymized volunteer patient ...

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 ...

Neanderthals and humans mated millennia ago, and their legacy lives on in us today. Here's how. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

Today, thanks to new artifacts and technologies, findings about our closest relatives are coming thick and fast Tim Vernimmen, Knowable Magazine Neanderthals have ...