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

When ancient humans interbred, new research shows that the pairings were predominantly male Neanderthals and female Homo ...

Humans and Neanderthals cozied up from time to time when they lived in the same areas tens of thousands of years ago. But we don't know ...

Some Neanderthal populations lived in complete isolation for tens of thousands of years, separated from others with no genetic exchange. One such group, represented by an individual named “Thorin,” ...

Discover the latest news, features and articles about who Neanderthals were, whether they mated with modern humans and when ...

For more than a century, Neanderthals have been cast as a vanished side branch of the human family tree, a brief encounter in our deep past. The latest high resolution Neanderthal genome, combined ...