Neanderthals went extinct roughly 39,000 years ago, but in some sense these close cousins of our species are not gone. Their ...

Research conducted at the Department of Biology, University of Padova, has identified critical genomic milestones in the ...

This year, we learned that our Neanderthal cousins were a lot like us, despite treading their own path that ended in ...

We Homo sapiens possess surprisingly few functional genes that distinguish us from extinct human lineages such as ...

A new study has narrowed the timeline of human-Neanderthal interactions to around 45,000 years ago, offering insights into ...

For several millennia, Neanderthals and modern humans interbred shortly after all non-African ancestors moved into Eurasia.

Scientists have long agreed that early humans mated with Neanderthals, but a pair of recent studies have shed light on when ...

Research shows a link between Zlatý kůň and Ranis, early European modern humans who retained African traits, lacked ...

These genomes are the oldest yet found of modern humans in Europe. Like any good research, these genomes lead to more ...