For years, geneticists have wrestled with a curious absence: many modern people carry Neanderthal DNA, yet large stretches of the human X chromosome are almost empty of it. A new study argues that ...

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

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 ...

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

Neanderthal and homo sapiens mated, but it was mostly only the men of the former species with the females of the latter. This explains a major DNA problem that scientists have noticed in the human ...

Neanderthal males had a tendency to mate with human females, new research suggests.

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 ...

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

Neanderthal men were short, stocky and powerful - and our female ancestors appeared to fancy them, according to a new study. (Image is AI-generated).

Opera, The Great Wave, Festival Theatre, Edinburgh. A compact, but comprehensive, art exhibition over two floors of the Festival Theatre foyer ...

Biologists have debated the reason why Homo sapiens evolved a prominent lower jaw, but this unique feature may actually be a ...