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. Genomic research by members of Sarah Tishkoff's lab at the University of ...

Geneticists have found an interesting pattern in how early humans and Neanderthals interbred—and it wasn't balanced.

Most people today have a little Neanderthal DNA sprinkled through their genome. These genomic signals are the telltale signs that overlapping populations of ancient anatomically modern humans and ...

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

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

FILE: Reconstructions of a Neanderthal man, left, and woman at the Neanderthal museum in Mettmann, Germany, March 2009 ...

Neanderthals systematically boiled animal bones to extract fat and grease at an industrial scale 125,000 years ago, according to a new study that reframes long-standing assumptions about their dietary ...

CNN — From studying fossilized skulls, scientists know that the size of a Neanderthal's brain was the same as, if not slightly bigger than, that of a modern human. However, researchers have known ...

We think of lead poisoning as just damaging, but a new study suggests that periodic lead exposure might have given our ancient ancestors an advantage over Neanderthals. Researchers analyzed 51 ...

Neanderthals died out some 30,000 years ago, but their genes live on within many of us. African people have very little Neanderthal DNA because their ancestors didn't make the trip through Eurasia, ...

Your stereotypical leering barbarian chief has access to mass-produced food for his harem of abducted princesses and their children, whether it be access to farmland, a flock of livestock, and/or ...