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

Most people today have a little Neanderthal DNA sprinkled through their genome. Exactly what these interactions looked like is a mystery, but a new study suggests that when our species and ...

New research reveals that ancient interbreeding between humans and Neanderthals shaped our modern human DNA - especially on the X chromosome.

FILE: Reconstructions of a Neanderthal man, left, and woman at the Neanderthal museum in Mettmann, Germany, March 2009 ...

Most people alive today carry fragments of Neanderthal DNA in their genome. Now scientists are gaining a more intimate ...

The human genome is a rich, complex record of migration, encounters, and inheritance written over thousands of millennia.

The findings may reveal new insights into early human mating preferences ...

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

If more human females mated with Neanderthal males than the other way around, over thousands of years you would expect to see ...

A study out Thursday in Science argues that Neanderthal men and human women were particularly inclined to mate, a sexual ...

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 ...

Most people with non-African ancestry carry roughly 1–4% Neanderthal ancestry spread across their genomes, a legacy of contact after modern humans expanded into Eurasia. But the X chromosome, one of ...