Tens of thousands of years ago, an extraordinary chapter in the story of humanity unfolded. Two distinct branches of the human family tree—modern humans and Neanderthals—crossed paths in a meeting ...

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Learn how interbreeding with Neanderthals may have bolstered our immune systems.

And their legacy persists — not just in the archaeological record, but in our very genes. Some modern-day people have 2 percent Neanderthal DNA, according to Prof. Chris Stringer, a leading human ...

Stunning discoveries and fresh breakthroughs in DNA analysis are changing our understanding of our own evolution and offering a new picture of the "other humans" that our ancestors met across Europe ...

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("Should AI be used to resurrect extinct species like the Neanderthal?" Dec. 26.) The author mentions swapping out "parts of human DNA with Neanderthal DNA." It may be a semantic point, but while ...

Hendrik Schmidt / picture alliance via Getty Images Though some might be surprised to see Neanderthal DNA in their ancestry test results, people of non-African descent derive 1 to 4 percent of ...

Genetic engineering can potentially use ancient DNA and genome editing methods to re-create a Neanderthal or aspects of a Neanderthal’s genetics and physiology. To do this, scientists could ...

These bits of Neanderthal DNA may have evolved in their population originally as a result of a genetic bottleneck in their population, predating any interbreeding with modern humans. This year has ...

The rapid disappearance of certain Neanderthal genes, known as "Neanderthal deserts ... East Asian populations also show traces of DNA from Denisovans, another hominin group. These discoveries help ...

By mapping the genomes of individuals from both modern and pre-agricultural populations, and using long-read gene sequencing (which sequences long strands of DNA ... and in our Neanderthal and ...