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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

Scientists say DNA evidence indicates male Neanderthals and human females interbred more often than opposite ...

Two of the traits that set modern humans apart from non-human primates are taller stature and a higher basal metabolic rate. Researchers have identified a genetic variant that contributed to the ...

The term Cro-Magnon began after five early modern human skeletons were found in a French rock shelter in 1868 and were ...