Ancient DNA research suggests that our non-African ancestors mixed with Neandertals about 50,000 years ago, resulting in one ...

Two recent studies suggest that the gene flow (as the young people call it these days) between Neanderthals and our species ...

Learn how scientists examined DNA to find out the duration of Neanderthal-human interbreeding and track down the Neanderthal ...

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

A genomic study encompassing more than 300 genomes spanning the last 50,000 years has revealed how a single wave of Neandertal gene flow into early modern humans left an indelible mark on human ...

Africans. Scientists analyzed the lengths of regions of Neanderthal DNA in 58 ancient Eurasian genomes of early modern humans and determined that the introgressed genes result from interbreeding ...

The oldest genomes ever recovered from modern humans have helped pin down when and how the momentous mingling of two hominins ...

Neanderthals went extinct roughly 39,000 years ago, but in some sense these close cousins of our species are not gone. Their ...

A new Intercontinental Exchange rule restricting the delivery of genetically modified cane sugar could restrict the flow of ...

An analysis of genomes from some of the earliest modern humans to live in Europe reveals their ancestors interbred with ...

Neanderthals interbred with modern humans for longer than previously thought, with the two species now believed to have ...

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder—even if that beholder is a barn swallow. Depending on where the birds live, some of them ...