Lawmaker has introduced a bill requiring Utah schools to show students videos of fertilization and development of a fetus ...

When ancient humans interbred, new research shows that the pairings were predominantly male Neanderthals and female Homo ...

A professor at the University of Notre Dame has declined a research appointment at the school, following weeks of outcry from students, staff and several U.S. Catholic bishops, over her prominent ...

Ancient linkups may have happened more frequently between female humans and male Neanderthals, according to an new genetic ...

Since 2010, scientists have known that Neanderthals and our ancestors had offspring together, and those hybrid babies passed down their genes to many present-day people. But the idea of “archaic ...

Most people alive today carry fragments of Neanderthal DNA in their genome. Now scientists are gaining a more intimate ...

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

For decades, scientists viewed the genome of a newly fertilized egg as a structural "blank slate"—a disordered tangle of DNA ...