When ancient humans interbred, new research shows that the pairings were predominantly male Neanderthals and female Homo ...

A study shows that interbreeding between the two species occurred primarily in one direction, and the origin of this bias is ...

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

Learn how sex-biased interbreeding between Neanderthals and modern humans explains why Neanderthal DNA is largely missing ...

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

Thin stretches of the human X chromosome look oddly empty when you scan for Neanderthal DNA. Geneticists even have a name for the gaps: “Neanderthal deserts.

For over a century, we’ve told ourselves a comfortable evolutionary story about our species. Neanderthals were hanging around when our ancestors showed up, but they were brutish, simple cousins. We, ...

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

A new study has revealed new insights into the mating patterns and preferences of early humans.

DNA evidence suggests homo sapiens women more often paired with Neanderthal men, helping explain why Neanderthal genes are rare.

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

3D models of Homo sapiens (top two images) and Homo neanderthalensis (bottom two images) crania for visual comparison. The human model was created from DICOM files of an anonymized volunteer patient ...