Modern-day people of African descent possess a smaller percentage of Neandertal DNA, possibly from people migrating back to Africa over the past 20,000 years (SN: 1/30/20).

DNA from prehistoric and modern-day people suggests that humans interbred with Neanderthals 47,000 years ago for a period lasting 6,800 years. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

As a result, all the modern human remains outside of Africa that are over 50,000 years old are actually "evolutionary dead ends," not ancestors of modern-day people, according to Arev Sümer, the ...

Neanderthals interbred with modern humans 47,000 years ago, passing down DNA that still exists in many modern-day people, according to two new studies.

BALTIMORE COUNTY, Md. – Speaking out in a case involving Marylanders incarcerated at the Baltimore County jail, a coalition uniting the national American Civil Liberties Union, several ACLU state ...