The human genome is a rich, complex record of migration, encounters, and inheritance written over thousands of millennia.

Ancient linkups may have happened more frequently between female humans and male Neanderthals, according to an new genetic ...

When ancient humans mated, dad was a Neanderthal, mom was Homo sapiens.

Genomic analysis shows that interbreeding between female Neanderthals and human males was less common than the opposite ...

Humans and Neanderthals cozied up from time to time when they lived in the same areas tens of thousands of years ago. A new ...

The team calculated that the mosquitos likely developed their “ anthropophily ”—their taste for human blood—at a point some 2 ...

Could a Moroccan cave hold a crucial piece of the puzzle of human origins? Hominin fossils dating back 773,000 years discovered in the country are bringing new evidence to the debate about the last ...

Most people alive today carry fragments of Neanderthal DNA in their genome. Now scientists are gaining a more intimate ...

The preference of some mosquitoes in the Anopheles leucosphyrus (Leucosphyrus) group—including those that transmit ...

The human genome is a rich, complex record of migration, encounters, and inheritance written over thousands of millennia. In this month of love, amid ...

A study out Thursday in Science argues that Neanderthal men and human women were particularly inclined to mate, a sexual ...