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

Ancient linkups may have happened more frequently between female humans and male Neanderthals, according to an new genetic ...

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Since 2010, scientists have known that Neanderthals and our ancestors had offspring together, and those hybrid babies passed down their genes to many present-day people. But the idea of “archaic ...

Most of our Neanderthal ancestors may have been male, according to an new genetic analysis. Scientists looked at the human genes that got interspersed with Neanderthal ones during an ancient mating ...

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The team calculated that the mosquitos likely developed their “ anthropophily ”—their taste for human blood—at a point some 2 ...

Mosquitoes have been biting people for more than a million years and probably much longer. An analysis of 38 modern mosquitoes’ DNA suggests an ancestral mosquito species developed a preference for ...

They open up the possibility of an evolutionary link with the oldest known Homo sapiens fossils – those from Jebel Irhoud in Morocco, dated to around 315,000 years ago. These discoveries help clarify ...

This month, Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. -- the individual entrusted with safeguarding the health of 330 million Americans -- posted a 90-second video of himself and ...

These three connected stories about the whole of human history can’t quite sustain the necessary emotional heft.