Anatomically Modern Humans

Sex lives of Neanderthal males - and human females

Neanderthals' human blood mostly came from moms, study suggests

While it's common knowledge that Neanderthals and modern humans interbred long ago, a new genetic study is suggesting that among the Neanderthals, their modern human blood came mostly from the moms in...

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Male Neanderthals and female humans likely interbred more often than the other way around

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Neanderthal males, human females? How ancient attraction shaped the human genome

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What happened when humans and Neanderthals hooked up

The 2010 discovery that early humans and Neanderthals once encountered one another and had babies was a scientific bombshell that electrified the field of human origins.

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New Study Shows That Neanderthal Men Likely Repeatedly Mated with Human Women

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Ancient coupling may have happened more between human females and Neanderthal males

Discover Magazine

Neanderthals Mated With Modern Human Women — And It Still Shapes Many People's DNA Today

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

Science Daily

This gene variant contributed to the dietary and physiological evolution of modern humans

Two of the traits that set modern humans apart from non-human primates are taller stature and a higher basal metabolic rate. Researchers have identified a genetic variant that contributed to the co-evolution of these traits. This mutation seems to help ...

Scientific American

Neanderthal and human interbreeding tended to follow a specific pattern

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