Most people alive today carry fragments of Neanderthal DNA in their genome. Now scientists are gaining a more intimate ...

Archaeologists have uncovered mysterious collections of animal skulls in a Neanderthal cave, raising new questions about their rituals and symbolic practices.

A new radiocarbon reassessment has established that the so-called Lapedo child from central Portugal was buried approximately ...

CENIEH is part of the international team publishing in Nature Ecology & Evolution a comprehensive review of two million years of fossil and ...

Archaeologists in Spain have discovered an odd collection of animal bones that may point to evidence of an ancient ...

If more human females mated with Neanderthal males than the other way around, over thousands of years you would expect to see ...

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

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

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.

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

Ancient linkups may have happened more frequently between female humans and male Neanderthals, according to an new genetic analysis. Scientists know that Neanderthals and humans mated because there ...

The findings may reveal new insights into early human mating preferences ...