Learn how sex-biased interbreeding between Neanderthals and modern humans explains why Neanderthal DNA is largely missing ...
Scientists say DNA evidence indicates male Neanderthals and human females interbred more often than opposite ...
A new study suggests preeclampsia, a deadly pregnancy disorder, may have contributed to Neanderthal extinction.
I have spent years covering discoveries that nudge our origin story around the edges, but the sequencing of DNA from one of the very last Neanderthals does something different: it rewrites the ...
Neanderthals disappeared from the fossil record approximately 40,000 years ago. Their extinction was a gradual process over thousands of years, and theories as to why include competition with modern ...