Could a Moroccan cave hold a crucial piece of the puzzle of human origins? Hominin fossils dating back 773,000 years discovered in the country are bringing new evidence to the debate about the last ...

In 2021, scientists made a breakthrough when they classified a 140,000-year-old skull from Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, as ...

New genomic research suggests our species descended from a deep fusion between two ancient lineages — one of them a mysterious “ghost.” ...

Two fossil skulls discovered in Yunxian, northern China, are now dated to approximately 1.77 million years ago, making them ...

WASHINGTON, Feb 26 (Reuters) - When Homo sapiens trekked out of Africa, our species encountered Neanderthal populations ...

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

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

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

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

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To uncover these surprising sexual preferences, researchers examined the sex chromosomes of both modern humans and Neanderthals. In females, these consist of a pair of X chromosomes, while males ...

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