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

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

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

A new study has revealed new insights into the mating patterns and preferences of early humans.

A new genetic study reveals that ancient humans and Neanderthals frequently interbred, with female humans more often mating ...

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

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

When Neanderthals and ancient modern humans interbred, the pairings were mostly between male Neanderthals and female humans. This finding helps explain why Neanderthal ancestry present in most humans ...

The researchers also found that Neanderthals had far more human DNA on their X chromosomes than expected. This confirms the theory that Neanderthal men had more involvement with human women than the ...

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 ...

Most people with non-African ancestry carry roughly 1–4% Neanderthal ancestry spread across their genomes, a legacy of contact after modern humans expanded into Eurasia. But the X chromosome, one of ...

NEW YORK -- 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 much about who got with whom, or why. A new genetic ...