Human DNA recovered from remains found in Europe is revealing our species’ shared history with Neanderthals. The trove is the ...
Their legacy lives on in the genomes of most people on Earth, thanks to interbreeding between Homo sapiens and Neanderthals.
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Beneficial genes for health that homo sapiens inherited from Neanderthals during 7,000 years of sexual encountersA study reveals that the majority of genes transmitted to us by Neanderthals through hybridization between the two species ...
The salivary amylase gene, known as AMY1, is already known to have helped us adapt to eating carbs. It encodes amylase, an ...
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10 fascinating discoveries about Neanderthals in 2024, from 'Thorin' the last Neanderthal to an ancient glue factoryThis year, we learned that our Neanderthal cousins were a lot like us, despite treading their own path that ended in ...
Anthropologists have long known that the groups interbred before Neanderthals went extinct about 40,000 years ago, but two ...
Editor's note: This story was originally published on Dec. 23, 2023 and was updated on Dec. 11, 2024 to include information from the 2024 paper arguing that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens should be ...
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