Humans don’t have a defined mating season like deer or wolves. Here’s how evolution blended biology, culture and social life into year-round intimacy.

The findings may reveal new insights into early human mating preferences ...

New research reveals that ancient interbreeding between humans and Neanderthals shaped our modern human DNA - especially on the X chromosome.

A picture taken on March 26, 2018 shows a moulding of a Neanderthal man face displayed for the Neanderthal exhibition at the ...

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

Researchers found that Neanderthals carried excess modern human DNA on their X chromosomes, pointing to predominantly male ...

Scientists say DNA evidence indicates male Neanderthals and human females interbred more often than opposite ...

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

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 ...