Neanderthals emerged around 250.000 years ago from European populations—referred to as "pre-Neanderthals"—which inhabited the Eurasian continent between 500.000 and 250.000 years ago. It was long ...
Every time you look in the mirror, you are seeing the legacy of an extinct cousin. A small but influential fraction of your genome comes from Neanderthals, and those ancient fragments are still ...