A research team led by Dr. Chris Baumann and Dr. Dorothée Drucker from the Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and ...

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

Humans and Neanderthals cozied up from time to time when they lived in the same areas tens of thousands of years ago. But we ...

Ancient linkups may have happened more frequently between female humans and male Neanderthals, according to an new genetic ...

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

Study of 280 empirical papers suggests evolution is shaped by both individual advantage and competition between groups.

Some animals are evolving faster than scientists previously thought possible, due to climate change. We can too.

Neanderthal DNA is not distributed evenly throughout the human genome. Scientists say the explanation may be mating behavior.

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

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

Could a Moroccan cave hold a crucial piece of the puzzle of human origins? Hominin fossils dating back 773,000 years discovered in the country are bringing new evidence to the debate about the last ...

The human genome is a rich, complex record of migration, encounters, and inheritance written over thousands of millennia.