Articles for tag: Ancient DNA, genetic inheritance, human evolution, Neanderthal genes, population genetics

Why Some Humans Carry Traces of Ancient Genes

Why Some Humans Carry Traces of Ancient Genes

Gargi Chakravorty

You’ve probably heard that everyone outside Africa carries a small percentage of Neanderthal DNA. Yet you might not realize that this is just one piece of a much larger puzzle about our human ancestry. The story goes far deeper than most people imagine, stretching back hundreds of thousands of years and involving multiple encounters between ...