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 ...
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 ...
To better pinpoint when early members of our species started breeding with Neanderthals ... and the bones of a woman found about two days' walk away in the Koněpruské cave in Zlatý kůň ...
Neanderthals, which disappeared from the archaeological ... "Horses and donkeys can breed, but the mules they give birth to are sterile, and so the two are considered to be different species ...
According to a new reconstruction of the Neanderthal ribcage, our extinct relatives may have been considerably chunkier in this area than we are, with this extra bulk potentially providing the ...
An analysis of genomes from some of the earliest modern humans to live in Europe reveals their ancestors interbred with Neanderthals in one period between 43,000 and 50,000 years ago. Neanderthals ...
Two new studies have helped narrow down the time during which Neanderthals interbred with modern humans to a period starting about 50,500 years ago and lasting over seven millennia. One of the ...
The study published in Nature highlights the oldest modern human genomes, offering evidence of Neanderthal mixing with Homo sapiens. Researchers analyzed remains from two distinct groups of ...
Scientists have spent years assembling evidence to fill out the intricate Neanderthal timeline from emergence to extinction, and the latest update has cemented a date for Neanderthal interbreeding ...
That’s according to new research from two independent studies that narrowed down when Homo sapiens and Neanderthals interbred. The findings suggest that this mixing began about 50,500 years ago ...