Human intelligence wasn’t a cosmic evolutionary fluke, some scientists say. The case against cosmic loneliness is growing.

Two naturally mummified individuals buried roughly 7,000 years ago in a Libyan rock shelter have yielded ancient genomes that reveal a previously unknown, long-isolated North African lineage. The ...

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

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

Geneticists have a better understanding of how prehistoric pairings unfolded, with new research suggesting they were mostly ...

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

New research reveals that ancient interbreeding between humans and Neanderthals shaped our modern human DNA - especially on the X chromosome.

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

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

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

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