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

If more human females mated with Neanderthal males than the other way around, over thousands of years you would expect to see ...

Perhaps human females found Neanderthal males to be high-status providers. Or perhaps Neanderthal society was “patrilocal” — meaning women moved to join the man’s family — while human society was the ...

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

Genealogy study claims first conclusive case of sex ‘distortion’ in humans — but not all researchers are convinced.

Most people today have a little Neanderthal DNA sprinkled through their genome. Exactly what these interactions looked like is a mystery, but a new study suggests that when our species and ...

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 analysis. Scientists know that Neanderthals and humans mated because there ...

We all learned about Joan of Arc, Marie Curie, and maybe Rosa Parks in school. But here's the thing - history textbooks have ...

On a remote island in North Macedonia, male Hermann’s tortoises outnumber females 19 to 1, an imbalance driving the population to extinction.

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