Two studies came to a similar conclusion, highlighting a single, sustained event of mixing DNA. The findings could impact our ...

After humans first migrated out of Africa about 60,000 years ago, we started having sex with Neanderthals – a now extinct archaic but closely-related species. Now, scientists claim to have ...

Long ago, early humans shared the earth with several archaic human species, including Neanderthals and Denisovans. These species, were bipedal and close relatives of modern humans. They lived in ...

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Human DNA recovered from remains found in Europe is revealing our species’ shared history with Neanderthals. The trove is the ...

"Our results point to a scenario where Modern and Archaic should be regarded as populations of an otherwise common human ...

Most non-African people can attribute around 1% to 2% of their DNA to Neanderthal ancestors. But the details of that evolutionary history have remained unclear. How often did ancient humans and ...

Scientists analyzed the lengths of regions of Neanderthal DNA in 58 ancient Eurasian genomes of early modern humans and determined that the introgressed genes result from interbreeding between ...

Neanderthals and humans likely mixed and mingled during a narrow time frame 45,000 years ago, scientists reported Thursday. Researchers analyzed ancient genes to pinpoint the time period ...

revealing that modern humans and Neanderthals had babies together for an extended period, peaking 47,000 years ago — leaving genetic fingerprints in modern-day people. Scientists have long known ...

They also examined bone fragments from an early human population in Ranis, Germany, about 140 miles (230 kilometers) away. They found snippets of Neanderthal DNA that placed the mating at around ...

A new analysis of DNA from ancient modern humans (Homo sapiens) in Europe and Asia has determined, more precisely than ever, the time period during which Neanderthals interbred with modern humans ...