The mating game: New DNA study shows female humans often interbred with Neanderthal males Growing research – including ancient DNA technology – is changing the picture of human evolution and how our ...

Our species is the last living member of the human family tree. But just 40,000 years ago, Neanderthals walked the Earth, and hundreds of thousands of years before then, our ancestors overlapped with ...

Humans are far closer to meerkats and beavers for levels of exclusive mating than we are to most of our primate cousins, according to a new University of Cambridge study that includes a table ranking ...