Likewise, autistic children often activate visual areas more intensely when solving mathematical problems compared to non-autistic peers. This overlap between ancient genes and modern cognitive traits ...

Work on how Neanderthal DNA has a subtle but significant impact on human traits notes that some of these mental health links could have been advantageous in ancient settings, for instance by promoting ...

Researchers have found surprising links that show that Neanderthal ancestry influences our immune system today in ways more ...

Neanderthals died out some 30,000 years ago, but their genes live on within many of us. African people have very little Neanderthal DNA because their ancestors didn't make the trip through Eurasia, ...

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 ...

Researchers detect a genetic contribution from East Asia rather than Europe as they discover 3 to 3.8 percent Neanderthal DNA ...

Model of an adult Neanderthal male in the Hall of Human Origins in the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History. Source: Wikimedia Commons by Tim Evanson (Flickr: http ...

Ancient DNA from a rare Neanderthal fetus, known from only 12 fragmented bones, provided insight into an earlier evolutionary branch and helped researchers trace a massive population crash that ...