Neanderthals and humans likely mixed and mingled during a narrow time frame 45,000 years ago, scientists reported Thursday, a ...

A new study says Neanderthals and humans likely mixed and mingled during a narrow time frame 45,000 years ago.

Analysis of early modern human genomes suggests that Neanderthal DNA was introduced to populations in Europe around 43,500 to ...

The Neanderthal DNA found in modern human genomes has long raised questions about ancient interbreeding. New studies offer a ...

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

An analysis of genomes from some of the earliest modern humans to live in Europe reveals their ancestors interbred with ...

Ancient genomes reveal a narrow time window for Neanderthal and human interbreeding, raising new questions about their shared ...

Anthropologists have long known that the groups interbred before Neanderthals went extinct about 40,000 years ago, but two ...

Scientists have pinpointed a time frame in which Neanderthals began "mixing" with modern humans, based on DNA of early ...

Homo sapiens began in Africa but Neanderthals were Eurasian. Any miscegenation would have happened after sapiens left its ...

Most of us have Neanderthal ancestors, and now scientists how revealed important details about how their DNA shape us today.