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

By now, it’s firmly established that modern humans and their Neanderthal relatives met and mated as our ancestors expanded ...

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

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

Long ago, Neanderthals and humans interbred. But among Neanderthals, their human blood came mostly from their female ...

The human genome is a rich, complex record of migration, encounters, and inheritance written over thousands of millennia. Genomic research by members of Sarah Tishkoff's lab at the University of ...

Geneticists have a better understanding of how prehistoric pairings unfolded, with new research suggesting they were mostly between male Neanderthals and female humans.

Scientists say DNA evidence indicates male Neanderthals and human females interbred more often than opposite ...

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

A preference for pairings between male Neanderthals and female Homo sapiens may answer the question of why there are "Neanderthal deserts" in human chromosomes.

His work with his colleague Richard Ryan changed how psychologists understand human motivation and what people require to ...

Ancient linkups may have happened more frequently between female humans and male Neanderthals, according to an new genetic analysis. Scientists know that Neanderthals and humans mated because there is ...