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

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 ...

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

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

Genetic evidence hints that there was a strong bias for male Neanderthals and female humans to mate, rather than any other combination ...

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

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 ...

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

La preferencia de algunos mosquitos por la sangre humana —el rasgo que los convierte en eficaces vectores de la malaria— pudo surgir hace entre 2,9 y 1,6 millones de años en el sudeste asiático, coinc ...

Investigadores hallaron secuencias simbólicas en objetos paleolíticos con una complejidad comparable a sistemas tempranos de escritura.

Un equipo liderado por científicos australianos e indonesios identificó en una cueva de la isla asiática un artefacto que ...

Cuando los valores en los que cree una sociedad se derrumban, podría ocurrir como con los neandertales, que se disolvieron en las sombras ...