The idea that modern humans inherited DNA from Neanderthal ancestors is one of the 21st century’s most celebrated discoveries ...

Neanderthals are also continuing their own journey through history, and the latest scientific study conducted at Stajnia Cave ...

Fossils offer a detailed record of early human skulls but not the brains inside them. So researchers have been using genetic material taken from those fossils to search for clues about how the human ...

A series of new studies have transformed understanding of Neanderthal life, interactions with Homo sapiens, and human ...

A skull fragment discovered over fifty years ago on the banks of the Elbe River in Germany has finally yielded its secrets. Long considered by some researchers to be a rare Neanderthal-modern human ...

The latest research on a Neanderthal infant from Amud Cave in Israel is giving a clearer picture of how different early ...

As they roamed around Europe and Asia between 400,000 and 40,000 years ago, Neanderthals had some hallmarks of humanity, ...

New 3D analysis of a German skull clears up decades of confusion, placing this human firmly in the modern family tree.

A remarkable genetic breakthrough has uncovered what may be one of the clearest snapshots yet of a Neanderthal “community” ...

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Edited volume of papers from a conference of the same name held at New York University, Jan. 27-29, 2005. Contents Neanderthals revisited / K. Harvati and T. Harrison -- The distinctiveness and ...

Scientists have found that Neanderthals in Northern Europe practised cannibalism, targeting individuals from rival groups, ...