A new analysis of ancient DNA has found that Neanderthal genomes contain 62 percent more ancestry from anatomically modern ...

Neanderthal men were short, stocky and powerful – and our female ancestors seemed to be into it, according to a new study. It's a well–known fact that ancient humans and Neanderthals had sex, as many ...

Anthropologists have spent centuries piecing together the story of human history. For every fascinating detail they unearth, there are others that are rather, uh, unsavory. A new analysis of human ...

(CNN) — The 2010 discovery that early humans and Neanderthals once encountered one another and had babies was a scientific bombshell that electrified the field of human origins. Now, geneticists at ...

NEW YORK — 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 ...

The study of an assemblage of Neanderthal human bones discovered in the Troisième caverne of Goyet (Belgium) has brought to light selective cannibalistic behavior primarily targeting female adults and ...

Thin stretches of the human X chromosome look oddly empty when you scan for Neanderthal DNA. Geneticists even have a name for the gaps: "Neanderthal deserts." They sit there like blank tape in an ...

BERLIN, Germany (AP) -- Scientists say they've found the remains of a prehistoric female whose mother was a Neanderthal and whose father belonged to another extinct group of human relatives known as ...