Ancient history often feels distant and abstract, reduced to fossil fragments and textbook timelines. Yet every so often, a ...

A new study has revealed new insights into the mating patterns and preferences of early humans.

A new study in Science suggests Neanderthal men and modern human women interbred more often than assumed, reshaping theories about our DNA. But what drove those ancient pairings remains uncertain.

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

Researchers at the Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology have uncovered new evidence that two major types of gene-controlling DNA sequences, promoters and enhancers, operate with a shared ...

Perhaps human females found Neanderthal males to be high-status providers. Or perhaps Neanderthal society was “patrilocal” — meaning women moved to join the man’s family — while human society was the ...

Neanderthal DNA is not distributed evenly throughout the human genome. Scientists say the explanation may be mating behavior.

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

A study shows that interbreeding between the two species occurred primarily in one direction, and the origin of this bias is ...

Structural nanomedicine — what helped give us the COVID vaccine — may now be the key to a potent blood cancer treatment that’s had remarkable early results.

A study published today in the journal Science reveals how jumping fragments of human DNA, a type of genetic parasite, ...