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

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

When Homo sapiens trekked out of Africa, our species encountered Neanderthal populations already inhabiting the vast expanses of Europe, Asia and the Middle East. As the presence of Neanderthal DNA in ...

Most people today have a little Neanderthal DNA sprinkled through their genome. Exactly what these interactions looked like is a mystery, but a new study suggests that when our species and ...

Thin stretches of the human X chromosome look oddly empty when you scan for Neanderthal DNA. Geneticists even have a name for the gaps: “Neanderthal deserts.

Learn how sex-biased interbreeding between Neanderthals and modern humans explains why Neanderthal DNA is largely missing ...

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

Long ago, Neanderthals and modern humans interbred. But among Neanderthals, their modern human blood came mostly from their ...

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

Loss of the Y chromosome in aging men is widespread and increasingly linked to serious diseases, challenging assumptions that ...

Neil Hunter, a professor in the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, has discovered a crucial step in how chromosomes stay connected during the development for egg cells and sperm, ...