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

This year, we learned that our Neanderthal cousins were a lot like us, despite treading their own path that ended in ...

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

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

Humans and Neanderthals were mingling some 45,000 years ago — and new DNA research has revealed exactly how our long lost ...

Scientists have long agreed that early humans mated with Neanderthals, but a pair of recent studies have shed light on when exactly this DNA mixing occurred. Such a revelation could help ...

The Neanderthal DNA found in modern human genomes has long raised questions about ancient interbreeding. New studies offer a ...

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

Scientists have pinpointed a time frame in which Neanderthals began "mixing" with modern humans, based on DNA of early ...

Two recent studies suggest that the gene flow (as the young people call it these days) between Neanderthals and our species happened during a short period sometime between 50,000 and 43,500 years ago.

looking for segments of Neanderthal DNA and trying to estimate when they entered the human genome. They report in Science that Neanderthals and humans interbred for 7,000 years starting about ...

Most of us have Neanderthal ancestors, and now scientists how revealed important details about how their DNA shape us today.