Cutting-edge genetics research reveals a startling legacy embedded in our DNA.
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You could be carrying up to 4 percent Neanderthal DNA – and it may be weakening your virus defenses
All non-African populations alive today carry between two and four percent Neanderthal DNA, which continues to shape our ...
Fossils offer a detailed record of early human skulls but not the brains inside them. So researchers have been using genetic material taken from those fossils to search for clues about how the human ...
Benjamin holds a Master's degree in anthropology from University College London and has previously worked in the fields of psychedelic neuroscience and mental health. Benjamin holds a Master's degree ...
LOS ANGELES - As recently as 2008, scientists thought that Neanderthals and modern humans had never mated. Then, last year, they said that the two species had - but that the few Neanderthal genes that ...
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 ...
Deep in your muscles, an enzyme called AMPD1 helps turn chemical fuel into usable energy. When it does not work well, muscles tire faster. That matters because problems with AMPD1 are the most common ...
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