If you happen to carry a certain piece of Neanderthal DNA, you likely have more muscle than people who do not, and now, scientists know why. A new study has identified a Neanderthal version of a gene ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The rebuilt skull of a 75,000-year-old Neanderthal woman named Shanidar Z, after the cave in Iraqi Kurdistan where her skull was ...

A Neanderthal gene variant carried by many people in South Asia is linked to about 9.5 extra ounces of muscle in adults.

Thorin’s 42,000-year-old DNA reveals 50,000 years of Neanderthal isolation, inbreeding and no mixing with modern humans.

A Neanderthal gene associated with bone and muscle growth still exists in some people, who tend to have more muscle mass and other Neanderthal-like features, according to a new study in Current ...

Neanderthal Gene Linked to Enhanced Muscle Growth Study Links Ancient Variant to Height, Muscle Mass, and Jaw Traits in Modern Humans ...

Neanderthals disappeared tens of thousands of years ago, but they did not vanish without leaving a genetic legacy. Because Neanderthals and early modern humans interbred, many people today still carry ...

It’s rare that ancient DNA from Neanderthals remains as intact as scientists would like. But on the lucky occasion that researchers do find high-quality genomes, the implications are ...

Our Neanderthal heritage has stuck with us after 30,000 years according to DNA results. Source: Photo by Crawford Jolly on Unsplash You might not know it but you could carry a Neanderthal gene that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Neanderthal skull from Forbes' Quarry, Gibraltar. (AquilaGib/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0) Genetic deterioration may not have ...

The secret to differences between modern humans and Neanderthals appears to have as much to do with which genes are switched on and which are switched off as it does with differences in the raw ...