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

But the next time you squash one of these bloodsuckers, consider this: you are participating in a bitter rivalry that goes back to the time of Homo erectus. It turns out that mosquitoes have been ...

Perhaps human females found Neanderthal males to be high-status providers. Or perhaps Neanderthal society was “patrilocal” — meaning women moved to join the man’s family — while human society was the ...

A preference for pairings between male Neanderthals and female Homo sapiens may answer the question of why there are "Neanderthal deserts" in human chromosomes.

“The results demonstrate that Homo sapiens during the late [Middle Stone Age] mastered precise, pre-planned patterns anchored in specific geometric affordances: orthogonality [meaning the use of right ...

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

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

The study, published in Science, was motivated by a curious observation—the X chromosome in modern humans has a minimal ...

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

Washington — When Homo sapiens trekked out of Africa, our species encountered Neanderthal populations already inhabiting the ...

Since 2010, scientists have known that Neanderthals and our ancestors had offspring together, and those hybrid babies passed down their genes to many present-day people. But the idea of “archaic ...