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'More Neanderthal than human': How your health may depend on DNA from our long-lost ancestors
Live Science via Yahoo News· 7 days ago(Image credit: Joe McNally via Getty Images) Our physical appearance For many people, the legacy of ...
Oldest Known Human Viruses Found in 50,000-Year-Old Neanderthal Bones
ScienceAlert via Yahoo News· 1 day agoHow Neanderthals went extinct while humans survived is one of the biggest questions in our species' history. Researchers have long wondered if our closest extinct relatives ...
The mystery of the disappearing Neanderthal Y chromosome
Live Science via Yahoo News· 7 days agoNon-Africans carry around 2% Neanderthal DNA in their genomes — yet there's one chromosome where DNA...
50,000-Year-Old Neanderthal Bones Have Remains of Human Viruses, Scientists Find
Smithsonian Magazine· 23 hours agoScientists have detected remnants of three types of viruses in 50,000-year-old Neanderthal bones....
10 unexpected ways Neanderthal DNA affects our health
LiveScience· 7 days agoThere, they encountered our closest, now-extinct human relatives — the Neanderthals. Today, we can...
Software tools identify forgotten genes
Nature· 4 hours agoFind My Understudied Genes and the Unknome database highlight interesting genes that have been neglected by science.
Could Neanderthals talk?
LiveScience· 7 days agoNeanderthals were our closest human relatives, and they had many similarities with anatomically modern humans. One of the most convincing pieces of evidence to support this ...
How Neanderthal language differed from modern human – they probably didn’t use metaphors
The Conversation· 4 days agoThe Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis) fascinate researchers and the general public alike. Neanderthals are also vital for understanding the uniqueness ...
We Now Know Exactly When Humans And Neanderthals Hooked Up
IFLScience· 2 days agoDespite disappearing around 40,000 years ago, Neanderthals continue to live on in the DNA of most...
Scientists Find Ancient Herpes in Neanderthal Bones
Gizmodo via Yahoo News· 3 days agoNeanderthal remains from the Altai Mountains contain human viruses, a team of researchers has found, suggesting that infectious diseases may have been...