A new analysis of DNA from ancient modern humans (Homo sapiens) in Europe and Asia has determined, more precisely than ever, ...

New research reveals that gene flow from Neanderthals has left a lasting imprint on modern human genomes. Non-African ...

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

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

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

Two new studies have helped narrow down the time during which Neanderthals interbred with modern humans to a period starting ...

Africans. Scientists from UC Berkeley and MPI-EVA analyzed the lengths of regions of Neanderthal DNA in 58 ancient Eurasian genomes of early modern humans and determined that the introgressed genes ...

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

For a long period of time, humans were running into Neanderthals, and they were having babies.” Modern humans, Homo sapiens, originated in Africa about 300,000 years ago. Somewhere around 50,000 ...

These findings deepen our understanding of human adaptation, migration, and the genetic legacy from Neanderthals and other ancient hominins. A new analysis of DNA from ancient modern humans (Homo ...

Even after our successful interbreeding with Neanderthals, our population of Europe wasn't without hitches. Those first ...