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

By now, it’s firmly established that modern humans and their Neanderthal relatives met and mated as our ancestors expanded ...

Interbreeding between Neandertals and ancient anatomically modern humans primarily occurred between male Neandertals and female humans, a new study suggests ...

A study out Thursday in Science argues that Neanderthal men and human women were particularly inclined to mate, a sexual ...

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

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

Neanderthal DNA study reveals surprising partner preference - This intriguing discovery raises significant questions about ...

Earlier migrations relied on “green corridors”—temporary windows of perfect weather that allowed people to move through ...

The human genome is a rich, complex record of migration, encounters, and inheritance written over thousands of millennia. Genomic research by members of Sarah Tishkoff's lab at the University of ...

Did modern humans erase Neanderthals, or did our close cousins fade away for reasons that had little to do with us? A pair of major papers in Science and Nature on Dec. 12, 2024, sharpen that question ...

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