Learn how scientists examined DNA to find out the duration of Neanderthal-human interbreeding and track down the Neanderthal ...

Scientists have long agreed that early humans mated with Neanderthals, but a pair of recent studies have shed light on when ...

Human DNA recovered from remains found in Europe is revealing our species’ shared history with Neanderthals. The trove is the ...

Surviving Neanderthal genes in the modern genome tell a story of thousands of years of interactions. Recent DNA studies have ...

Research shows a link between Zlatý kůň and Ranis, early European modern humans who retained African traits, lacked ...

New research provides an updated timeline of human-Neanderthal interactions, revealing patterns in the genetic legacy of this ancient exchange.Tens of ...

Neanderthals interbred with modern humans 47,000 years ago, passing down DNA that still exists in many modern-day people, ...

Two recent studies suggest that the gene flow (as the young people call it these days) between Neanderthals and our species ...

Today, all humans except those with only African heritage bear the marks of this union in their DNA. The study's findings ...

Africans. Scientists analyzed the lengths of regions of Neanderthal DNA in 58 ancient Eurasian genomes of early modern humans and determined that the introgressed genes result from interbreeding ...

“It suggests that hybrid individuals who had Neanderthal DNA in these regions were substantially less fit, likely to due to severe disease, lethality, or infertility,” Capra said via emai ...