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

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

Long ago, Neanderthals and modern humans interbred. But among Neanderthals, their modern human blood came mostly from their ...

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

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

Geneticists have found an interesting pattern in how early humans and Neanderthals interbred—and it wasn't balanced.

Thin stretches of the human X chromosome look oddly empty when you scan for Neanderthal DNA. Geneticists even have a name for the gaps: “Neanderthal deserts.

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

When ancient humans mated, dad was a Neanderthal, mom was Homo sapiens.

Learn how sex-biased interbreeding between Neanderthals and modern humans explains why Neanderthal DNA is largely missing ...

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 ...