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

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.

A new study suggests that inherited traits explain a small but measurable share of why some people relocate far from where ...

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

A study shows that interbreeding between the two species occurred primarily in one direction, and the origin of this bias is ...

New genomic research suggests our species descended from a deep fusion between two ancient lineages — one of them a mysterious “ghost.” ...

The same pathogen can often elicit very different responses from different people. Scientists sought to understand more about ...