A new digital reconstruction of the face of an early Australopithecus specimen helps add details about the origins of our own ...

Most people alive today carry fragments of Neanderthal DNA in their genome. Now scientists are gaining a more intimate ...

Could a Moroccan cave hold a crucial piece of the puzzle of human origins? Hominin fossils dating back 773,000 years discovered in the country are bringing new evidence to the debate about the last ...

Little Foot” is the most complete Australopithecus fossil ever found. And now we finally have an idea of what this group of ...

The human genome is a rich, complex record of migration, encounters, and inheritance written over thousands of millennia.

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

A new study in the journal Science reveals that interbreeding between Neanderthals and humans was strongly sex-biased. This social dynamic explains why Neanderthal DNA is missing from our X chromosome ...

Ancient linkups may have happened more frequently between female humans and male Neanderthals, according to an new genetic ...

In 2021, scientists made a breakthrough when they classified a 140,000-year-old skull from Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, as ...

If more human females mated with Neanderthal males than the other way around, over thousands of years you would expect to see just what they found: more human DNA in Neanderthal X chromosomes and less ...

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