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: An artist’s reconstruction of a Neanderthal, displayed in the exhibition ‘Britain: One Million Years of the Human Story’. Source: The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London

Modern Human DNA Has Neanderthal Traces – Except the Y Chromosome

By Jenny Graves /The Conversation Neanderthals, the closest cousins of modern humans, lived in parts of Europe and Asia until their extinction some 30,000 years ago. Genetic studies are revealing...
Adam and Eve after the Expulsion from Paradise by Paolo Veronese  (1528–1588) (Public Domain)

Adam and Eve put in their rightful place within evolutionary history

Genetic Adam and Genetic Eve are the popular terms for the common male and female ancestor of all humanity. Now a new study conducted by the University of Sheffield has revealed that almost every man...