Unretouched triangular microlithic projectile points have been identified from their impact traces in the oldest occupation ...

Tiny triangular-shaped flints from arrowheads found in Uzbekistan shed light on how the first settlement of ‘Homo sapiens’ – ...

When the two species got together tens of thousands of years ago, the hookups may have often involved a male Neanderthal and ...

The team calculated that the mosquitoes likely developed their “ anthropophily ”—their taste for human blood—at a point some ...

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 ...

DNA evidence suggests homo sapiens women more often paired with Neanderthal men, helping explain why Neanderthal genes are ...

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 ...

Perhaps human females found Neanderthal males to be high-status providers. Or perhaps Neanderthal society was “patrilocal” — ...

A preference for pairings between male Neanderthals and female Homo sapiens may answer the question of why there are ...

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 ...