Interbreeding between Neandertals and ancient anatomically modern humans primarily occurred between male Neandertals and female humans, a new study suggests ...

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

Most people today have a little Neanderthal DNA sprinkled through their genome. Exactly what these interactions looked like is a mystery, but a new study suggests that when our species and ...

Geneticists have a better understanding of how prehistoric pairings unfolded, with new research suggesting they were mostly ...

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 analysis off ...

Neanderthal males had a tendency to mate with human females, new research suggests.

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

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

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