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

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

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

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 ...

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.

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

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

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

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.

Scientists say they have recovered the oldest known Homo sapiens DNA from human remains found in Europe, and the information is helping to reveal our species’ shared history with Neanderthals.