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 ...

Gendaten scheinen ein Faible männlicher Neandertaler zu verraten: Sie bevorzugten offenbar Frauen aus Gruppen anatomisch ...

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 ...

Das Kriegshandwerk zählt nicht von ungefähr zu den ältesten Professionen des Menschen, denn seit jeher wird die Entwicklung des Homo sapiens von blutigen Verteilungs- und Machtkämpfen begleitet. "Die ...

Die Künstlerin Alicja Kwade hat die NZZ gestaltet. Im Gespräch sagt sie, weshalb unser Blick auf die Welt eingeschränkt ist.

Weder Affen noch Neandertaler besitzen ein Kinn. Eine Analyse zeigt, wie ausgerechnet Homo Sapiens zu dem Knochenvorsprung am Unterkiefer kam ...

Homo sapiens and Neanderthals were probably interbreeding over a huge area stretching from western Europe into Asia. It was thought that this probably happened in the eastern Mediterranean region, but ...