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

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

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

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

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

Neanderthals, meanwhile, are thought to have typically possessed wider, “bell-shaped” ribcages, thus giving them a ...

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

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

Most of us have Neanderthal ancestors, and now scientists how revealed important details about how their DNA shape us today.

The Neanderthal DNA found in modern human genomes has long raised questions about ancient interbreeding. New studies offer a ...

People have been fascinated by Neanderthals ever since we discovered their bones in a German cave in the mid-19th century. Their stocky bodies and huge heads give us a fun-house-mirror glimpse ...

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