Geneticists have a better understanding of how prehistoric pairings unfolded, with new research suggesting they were mostly ...

Ancient linkups may have happened more frequently between female humans and male Neanderthals, according to an new genetic ...

Genomic analysis shows that interbreeding between female Neanderthals and human males was less common than the opposite ...

Most people alive today carry fragments of Neanderthal DNA in their genome. Now scientists are gaining a more intimate understanding of the ancient encounters that put it there.

When ancient humans mated, dad was a Neanderthal, mom was Homo sapiens.

Could a Moroccan cave hold a crucial piece of the puzzle of human origins? Hominin fossils dating back 773,000 years discovered in the country are bringing new evidence to the debate about the last ...

Genetic evidence hints that there was a strong bias for male Neanderthals and female humans to mate, rather than any other combination ...

Did modern humans erase Neanderthals, or did our close cousins fade away for reasons that had little to do with us? A pair of major papers in Science and Nature on Dec. 12, 2024, sharpen that question ...

For decades, the disappearance of Neanderthals has been explained through dramatic stories of sudden extinction. Some theories suggested they were hunted, others that they starved when climates ...

Discover the latest news, features and articles about who Neanderthals were, whether they mated with modern humans and when ...

The human genome is a rich, complex record of migration, encounters, and inheritance written over thousands of millennia. In this month of love, amid ...

Fossils offer a detailed record of early human skulls but not the brains inside them. So researchers have been using genetic material taken from those fossils to search for clues about how the human ...