He's 5 months old, and his parents say he's already the size of a full-grown cat, and that they received warnings that his ...

The human genome is a rich, complex record of migration, encounters, and inheritance written over thousands of millennia. Genomic research by members of Sarah Tishkoff's lab at the University of ...

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

Interbreeding between Neandertals and ancient anatomically modern humans primarily occurred between male Neandertals and female humans, a new study suggests ...

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

WASHINGTON, Feb 26 (Reuters) - When Homo sapiens trekked out of Africa, our species encountered Neanderthal populations ...

When ancient humans interbred, new research shows that the pairings were predominantly male Neanderthals and female Homo sapiens.

Geneticists have a better understanding of how prehistoric pairings unfolded, with new research suggesting they were mostly between male Neanderthals and female humans.

For the first time, whole-genome analysis shows that the small Cape leopards are a genetically distinct population.

Genetic evidence hints that there was a strong bias for male Neanderthals and female humans to mate, rather than any other combination ...