But the study, published Thursday in the journal Science, shows “that whenever Neanderthals and modern humans have mated, ...

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.

Ancient history often feels distant and abstract, reduced to fossil fragments and textbook timelines. Yet every so often, a ...

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

Long ago, Neanderthals and modern humans interbred. But among Neanderthals, their modern human blood came mostly from their ...

Analysis of Neanderthal DNA revealed that the male Neanderthals regularly bred with female Homo sapiens, but this ...

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

A new study in Science suggests Neanderthal men and modern human women interbred more often than assumed, reshaping theories about our DNA. But what drove those ancient pairings remains uncertain.

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

Scientists made a shocking discovery after they revealed that they had unearthed two mummified corpses that, according to the ...

Scientists have identified how specific genetic changes function in cells to influence disease risk and other human health ...