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

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

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

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

Neanderthals interbred with modern humans 47,000 years ago, passing down DNA that still exists in many modern-day people, ...

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 ...

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