What Your DNA Reveals About the Sex Life of Neanderthals

Most people alive today carry fragments of Neanderthal DNA in their genome. Now scientists are gaining a more intimate ...

Neanderthal DNA study reveals surprising partner preference

But the study, published Thursday in the journal Science, shows “that whenever Neanderthals and modern humans have mated, ...
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A genetic analysis reveals new details on ancient couplings between humans and Neanderthals

Humans and Neanderthals cozied up from time to time when they lived in the same areas tens of thousands of years ago. But we ...
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Ghost lineages: The ancient DNA hiding in our genes today?

Fragments of DNA from long-extinct human relatives still circulate in modern genomes, and in some cases they do more than linger. They actively shape how people survive in extreme environments. The ...

What happened when humans and Neanderthals hooked up

Geneticists have a better understanding of how prehistoric pairings unfolded, with new research suggesting they were mostly ...

Scientists analyzed the genomes of an ancient culture—and rewrote the history of Europe

A study of ancient human DNA from a wetland region in Belgium, western Germany, and the Netherlands yielded surprising ...
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Nuclear DNA from sediments helps unlock ancient human history

The field of ancient DNA has revealed important aspects of human evolutionary past, including relationships with Denisovans and Neandertals. These studies have relied on DNA from bones and ...