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

Researchers at the Department of Paleobiology, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales in Madrid report that analysis of a ...

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

Neanderthals interbred with modern humans 47,000 years ago, passing down DNA that still exists in many modern-day people, ...

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

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

NEW YORK -- NEW YORK (AP) — Neanderthals and humans likely mixed and mingled during a narrow time frame 45,000 years ago, ...

An analysis of genomes from some of the earliest modern humans to live in Europe reveals their ancestors interbred with ...

Neanderthals lived in Europe, so they had to protect their bodies from frostbite and other cold-related problems. Although no frozen caveman clothing has ever been discovered, archaeologists think ...

Anthropologists have long known that the groups interbred before Neanderthals went extinct about 40,000 years ago, but two ...

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