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

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

Ancient genomes reveal a narrow time window for Neanderthal and human interbreeding, raising new questions about their shared ...

But many questions remain that these papers don’t address. It’s still unclear how subsequent human interbreeding with archaic human species may have contributed to variation in the amount of ...

New research refines the timeline of interbreeding between modern humans and Neanderthals, showing it began about 50,500 ...

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 ...

Scientists have long agreed that early humans mated with Neanderthals, but a pair of recent studies have shed light on when exactly this DNA mixing occurred. Such a revelation could help geneticists ...

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

Human DNA recovered from remains found in Europe is revealing our species’ shared history with Neanderthals. The trove is the ...

Studies published in the journals Nature and Science on Thursday suggest that ancient humans and Neanderthals interbred during a limited period of time as the humans left Africa and migrated to ...