Genetic exchange through interbreeding has likely played a key role in the emergence of new species, not just in humans but across the animal kingdom. This challenges the traditional view of human ...

Previous studies have shown that modern humans interbred with Neanderthals and Denisovans. For instance, Nielsen and his colleagues showed that humans who migrated to Tibet likely picked up an allele ...

A deep-rooted population structure emerged, suggesting modern humans, Homo sapiens, are the result of a population that split in two about 1.5 million years ago, and then, only 300,000 years ago, ...

Animal bones, including a red deer pelvis ... The discovery of the Lapedo child was one of the first clues that humans and Neanderthals interbred—a theory that is now well-supported by genetic ...

Researchers estimate that much of the Neanderthal DNA in modern human genomes came from interbreeding events that took place around 50,000 to 55,000 years ago in the Middle East. Thousands of years ...

Japan's government approved a request for stem-cell experiments meant to create an animal-human hybrid and allow it to be brought to term. The experiment, which still requires approval from the ...

purposeful interbreeding of dogs in the past 150 years. At the same time, the entire history of dogs and their relationship with humans has undergone some rethinking recently, thanks in large part ...