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

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

CENIEH is part of the international team publishing in Nature Ecology & Evolution a comprehensive review of two million years of fossil and ...

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 ...