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

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 ...

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

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

In 1891, an estimated 282,000 old Irish Goats roamed the country. “This research is a huge milestone for the Old Irish Goat, ...

Should you ever find yourself playing a trivia game on the topic of moths and butterflies, here are a few facts that might ...

Interbreeding between Neandertals and ancient anatomically modern humans primarily occurred between male Neandertals and female humans, a new study suggests ...

LINE-1 retrotransposons are mobile genome parasites that drive cancer evolution by reshuffling the host genome.

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 ...

Genomic analysis shows that interbreeding between female Neanderthals and human males was less common than the opposite ...

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