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The human genome is a rich, complex record of migration, encounters, and inheritance written over thousands of millennia. Genomic research by members of Sarah Tishkoff's lab at the University of ...

Discover how Homo sapiens outlasted Neanderthals – and how they helped make us who we are today. For 400,000 years, Neanderthals thrived across frigid, Ice Age Europe. What happened when Homo sapiens ...

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 ...

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 ...

In life, this Neanderthal family from Northern Spain struggled as their species declined. In death, bone evidence shows they became food for another Neanderthal group. NOVA is available to stream on ...

Not every modern human has the same set of Neanderthal DNA, however; different people will, by chance, have inherited different fragments. But there are also some areas, termed “Neanderthal deserts,” ...

When ancient humans interbred, new research shows that the pairings were predominantly male Neanderthals and female Homo sapiens. Reconstruction of a Neanderthal man (Homo neanderthalensis), based on ...

Neanderthal toddlers grew faster than their modern human counterparts, likely as an adaptation to living in a cold, harsh environment, new research suggests. The discovery, which was made using the ...

Neanderthal babies may have physically dwarfed their Homo sapiens counterparts, according to a new study that examined an infant skeleton of one of our ancient hominin relatives. “We cannot say how ...