Humans and Neanderthals cozied up from time to time when they lived in the same areas tens of thousands of years ago.

New research reveals that ancient interbreeding between humans and Neanderthals shaped our modern human DNA - especially on the X chromosome.

But the study, published Thursday in the journal Science, shows “that whenever Neanderthals and modern humans have mated, ...

Humans and Neanderthals cozied up from time to time when they lived in the same areas tens of thousands of years ago. But we ...

Genetic research indicates that Neanderthal and Homor Sapiens interbreeding was socially driven to an unexpected degree.

Most people with non-African ancestry carry roughly 1–4% Neanderthal ancestry spread across their genomes, a legacy of contact after modern humans expanded into Eurasia. But the X chromosome, one of ...

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

The emergence in the Neolithic of patrilineal 1 social systems, in which children are affiliated with their father's lineage, may explain a spectacular decline in the genetic diversity of the Y ...

Researchers at a lab in Kansas City believe they have made a breakthrough discovery in understanding infertility.

Analysing the births of a Utah family over seven generations has revealed that their disproportionate number of boys could be caused by a selfish Y chromosome ...