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Enlarge / Inside of the Vindija Cave, Croatia. (credit: M. Hajdinjak) Mezmaiskaya Cave offered shelter to Neanderthals for tens of thousands of years. The cave, located near Russia’s border with Georgia, preserved Neanderthal remains so well that researchers have now been able to extract genetic information from two different individuals who lived approximately 20,000 years […]
Enlarge / The entrance to the cave where the Neanderthal thigh bone was found in 1937. (credit: Wolfgang Adler, © Photo Museum Ulm) Modern humans and Neanderthals have a confusing genetic relationship. One set of data suggests our two species diverged around 650,000 years ago—but other clues point to an ongoing close (that is, sexual) […]
Neanderthals died out a long time ago, but their genes may make us more susceptible to certain diseases. DNA inherited from Neanderthals affects which of our genes are turned on or off, according to a study published today in Cell. This phenomenon, called regulation of gene expression, means that traits such as height and susceptibility […]
