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

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 ...

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

America was winning the race to find Martian life. Then China jumped in. In July 2024, NASA’s Perseverance rover came across a peculiar rocky outcrop on Mars covered in strange spots. On Earth, these ...

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