There has been some incredible research into the role this DNA plays in modern human neurodevelopment, so here's an overview ...

Human populations that left Africa evolved quickly whereas Neanderthals stayed the same, according to an analysis of blood ...

2% of the genomes of people outside Africa. However, the frequency of Neanderthal DNA that codes for beneficial traits may be ...

“And what’s really exciting is that even though there was this broader scope of traits that was considered, they point to effects of Neanderthal DNA on similar systems to what’s been seen previously.” ...

Neanderthal blood types may have made them ill-equipped to deal with infectious diseases.

“We always knew that there was some Neanderthal DNA in Africans,” says Janet Kelso, a computational biologist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology who was not involved in the ...

If your recent ancestry lies outside of Africa, you can safely assume that you carry some Neanderthal DNA. Human origins expert Professor Chris Stringer discusses what this Neanderthal inheritance may ...

("Should AI be used to resurrect extinct species like the Neanderthal?" Dec. 26.) The author mentions swapping out "parts of human DNA with Neanderthal DNA." It may be a semantic point, but while ...

I also discovered that I have more Neanderthal DNA than 93% of other 23andMe customers. That equates to less than ~2%, but, it has been pointed out to me, that still seems like quite a lot.

Did you know that almost everyone outside of Africa has around 2% Neanderthal DNA in their genomes ... Rawlinson on why women's sport is scoring high as an asset class. Reese Witherspoon tells ...

To trace their ancient ancestry, six friends of the Museum, including comedian Bill Bailey and science presenter Alice Roberts, contributed samples of their DNA to National Geographic's Genographic ...