A new analysis of ancient DNA has found that Neanderthal genomes contain 62 percent more ancestry from anatomically modern humans on their X chromosomes than on the rest of their chromosomes. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Neanderthal skull from Forbes' Quarry, Gibraltar. (AquilaGib/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0) Genetic deterioration may not have ...

It’s rare that ancient DNA from Neanderthals remains as intact as scientists would like. But on the lucky occasion that researchers do find high-quality genomes, the implications are ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ghost archaic ancestry reveals DNA from two unknown human lineages still carried by people around the world. (CREDIT: Shutterstock ...

Carles Lalueza-Fox is at the Natural Sciences Museum of Barcelona, Barcelona 08019, Spain, and the Institute of Evolutionary Biology (CSIC-UPF), Barcelona. Read the paper: Genetic diversity of late ...

UC Berkeley researchers have identified regions of DNA that humans inherited from two unknown ancestors as a result of long-ago interbreeding among modern humans and at least four other archaic human ...

We all likely have a bit of Neanderthal in our DNA -- including Africans who had been thought to have no genetic link to our extinct human relative, a new study finds. Evidence that our early ...

We’re living through a golden age of archaeological discovery about our distant cousins, the Neanderthals. We’ve recently learned they were much more intelligent than we used to give them credit for, ...

In a new Science study, scientists read the family tree buried inside modern genomes and turned up “ghost ancestors” in every population on Earth that no fossil records can account for. But did our ...

It was there that the case of the Denisovan pinkie bone took a startling turn. Pääbo, a transplanted Swede, is arguably the world’s leading expert in ancient DNA, especially human DNA. His milestones ...

The human genome holds genetic traces of at least two ancient relatives whose identities remain unknown. Their DNA survives alongside genes inherited from Neanderthals and Denisovans, revealing a ...