New research posits that a genetic incompatibility between female offspring of humans and Neanderthals and their children ...

Groundbreaking research finds that Neanderthals experienced a severe population crash 110,000 years ago, challenging past ...

Modern genetic studies show that up to 4% of human DNA comes from Neanderthals—and some of those ancient genes affect how our ...

Recent research on human evolution suggests that the extinction of our Neanderthal cousins may have been hastened by ...

The genetic link between bones discovered thousands of miles away from each other suggests a prehistoric migration route.

A 45,000-year-old Neanderthal bone found in Crimea shows ancient humans traveled thousands of miles, linking Europe and ...

A small blood gene difference made Neanderthal pregnancies with modern humans risky, possibly contributing to their disappearance.

A fatal genetic incompatibility between Neanderthals and modern humans may have hastened the extinction of our ancient ...

In their new study an international team led by the University of Vienna reports the discovery and extraction of ancient DNA ...

Researchers have long been attempting to piece together the trek of Neanderthals from Europe into Asia around the Middle and ...

Modern humans may indeed have wiped out Neanderthals – but not through war or murder alone. A new study suggests that when the two species interbred, a slow-acting genetic incompatibility increased ...

We now have only the second high-quality genome from an ancient Denisovan human, which reveals there were more populations of ...