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

For several millennia, Neanderthals and modern humans interbred shortly after all non-African ancestors moved into Eurasia.

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

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

These genomes are the oldest yet found of modern humans in Europe. Like any good research, these genomes lead to more ...

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

Tens of thousands of years ago, modern humans mated with Neanderthals. But exactly how and when that happened, and who those ...

Neanderthals and humans likely mixed and mingled during a narrow time frame 45,000 years ago, scientists reported Thursday.

A groundbreaking study has revealed that Neanderthals and modern humans (Homo sapiens) interbred for a period of around 7,000 ...

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

Scientists have successfully sequenced the genomes of seven people who lived in Europe between 42,000 and 49,000 years ago, ...