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

On Thursday, the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig reported on studies revealing that modern ...

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

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

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 ...

Tens of thousands of years ago, modern humans mated with Neanderthals. But exactly how and when that happened, and who those ...

They report in Science that Neanderthals and humans interbred for 7,000 years starting about 50,500 years ago. A second group of researchers disclosed in Nature a new line of evidence by ...

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 ...

A groundbreaking study has revealed that Neanderthals and modern humans (Homo sapiens) interbred for a period of around 7,000 ...

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

Meanwhile, Sümer and her team were also trying to clock when early humans and Neanderthals interbred. They worked with rare well-preserved early human remains from Germany and the Czech Republic ...