Scientists say they have recovered the oldest known Homo sapiens DNA from human remains found in Europe, and the information is helping to reveal our species’ shared history with Neanderthals.

Illustration of an encounter between a group of Neanderthals (black) and a group of modern humans (red, top row) with offspring showing recent Neanderthal ancestry (red, bottom row), imagined as a ...

By analyzing genetic data from 2,000 living humans, three Neanderthals, and one Denisovan, the team was able to map genetic flow between these groups over the past 250,000 years. Their findings ...

A pair of new studies sheds light on a pivotal but mysterious chapter of the human origin story, revealing that modern humans and Neanderthals had babies together for an extended period ...

Research into hundreds of genomes spanning 50,000 years of human history indicates that early modern humans and Neanderthals interbred in a relatively narrow time window, shedding light on the ...