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

The human genome is a rich, complex record of migration, encounters, and inheritance written over thousands of millennia.

The study, published in Science, was motivated by a curious observation—the X chromosome in modern humans has a minimal ...

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

Researchers found that Neanderthals carried excess modern human DNA on their X chromosomes, pointing to predominantly male ...

Modern humans are evolutionary survivors, thriving generation after generation while our ancient relatives died out. Now, new research into our brain chemistry suggests that an enzyme unique to Homo ...

In a rocky outcrop on Mount Carmel, in what is now Israel, a group of ancient humans buried their dead about 140,000 years ago. Scientists uncovered the site, called Skhul Cave, in 1928, and about ...

Two different human species meet tens of thousands of years ago. Modern humans, fresh from Africa, encounter their stockier, cold-adapted cousins in what is now Europe. Did this initial meeting lead ...

Every face carries a story, shaped long before birth by a quiet choreography of genes switching on and off at just the right moment. A new study suggests that part of that story reaches far back into ...

Modern human faces are surprisingly delicate compared with the jutting jaws and broad noses of our closest extinct cousins. The contrast is not just cosmetic, it reflects deep differences in growth, ...

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