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 ...

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 ...

A study shows that interbreeding between the two species occurred primarily in one direction, and the origin of this bias is ...

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 ...

Genomic analysis shows that interbreeding between female Neanderthals and human males was less common than the opposite ...

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 ...

Discover the latest news, features and articles about who Neanderthals were, whether they mated with modern humans and when they died out.

A growing body of genetic evidence suggests that Neanderthals and Denisovans carried many of the same regulatory gene networks linked to language and vocal anatomy in modern humans, challenging the ...

Our DNA is like a treasure trove that holds secrets from deep time, whispers from ancient kin who vanished without a trace yet gave us who we are toda.