New Evidence on Our Human Origins

This is like an episode of Prehistoric Love Island

A new study published in Science discovered that the most of the Neanderthal DNA in our bodies came from men, implying that Neanderthal men were strongly attracted to modern human women and possibly vice versa.

We’ve been carrying the ancient traces of their “coupling” in our DNA for the last 50,000 years 🤯

Alexander Platt et al. ,Interbreeding between Neanderthals and modern humans was strongly sex biased.Science391,922-925(2026).DOI: