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.

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

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

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

A new Yale study provides a fuller picture of the genetic changes that shaped the evolution of the human brain, and how the process differed from the evolution of chimpanzees. For the study, published ...

Researchers have used a new human reference genome, which includes many duplicated and repeat sequences left out of the original human genome draft, to identify genes that make the human brain ...