New research has uncovered an extraordinary discovery that challenges our understanding of early human evolution. A young ...

Modern humans have a small amount of Neanderthal DNA, and those genes still impact our health today. Scientists think they've figured out when the two groups started interbreeding and swapping DNA.

Modern human and archaic Neanderthal skulls side by side, showing difference in nasal height. ... they found 32 gene regions that influence facial features like nose, lip, jaw, and brow shape.

When modern humans emerged from Africa, ... What's more, previous research has found similarities in facial features between ...

Deep within the genome of modern day humans lie trace amounts of the DNA of a long-lost relative: the Neanderthal (Homo neanderthalensis).They lived about 400,000 to 40,000 years ago, and are the ...

In a related study from 2021, researchers relied on data from the 6,000 subjects to identify 32 modern gene regions related to facial features, including nine they declared as new discoveries. They ...

However, researchers know less about how modern human DNA may have entered the Neanderthal genome. That's largely because there are currently only three known high-quality examples of a complete ...

Neanderthal (left) and modern human skulls. Credit: John Reader/Science Photo Library/Getty Images Photo: John Reader/Science Photo Library/Getty Images . Despite our apparent ability and desire ...

A comparison of the genomes of a Neanderthal who lived 120,000 years ago in Siberia with those from modern humans in sub-Saharan Africa has revealed insight into the migratory and interbreeding ...

Staring into the twinkling eyes in the weathered features of the Neanderthal man, it's possible to feel a moment of connection, of recognising another fellow human (albeit of a different species). He ...

The remains of the Lapedo Child, found in Portugal in 1998, showed signs of being both Neanderthal and human, as later confirmed by DNA. New techniques in radiocarbon dating allowed scientists to ...

Until now, Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans (Homo sapiens) were believed to have first interbred earlier than 75,000 years ago, according to a 2016 genetic analysis in the journal ...