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.

Geneticists have a better understanding of how prehistoric pairings unfolded, with new research suggesting they were mostly between male Neanderthals and female humans.

Geneticists have found an interesting pattern in how early humans and Neanderthals interbred—and it wasn't balanced.

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

When ancient humans mated, dad was a Neanderthal, mom was Homo sapiens.

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 ...