By comparing modern human, Neanderthal, and chimpanzee skulls, researchers have uncovered a unique trait having to do with ...

Modern humans have uniquely small and flat faces, especially compared with our Neanderthal cousins' notoriously robust faces ...

When they lived: 400,000 to 34,000 years ago Where they lived: Western Eurasia, from Wales to Siberia to modern-day Israel. What they ate: Meat, from elephants to mussels.Some also ate mushrooms ...

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They’re probably somewhere in the Levant, so modern-day Israel or Lebanon or Jordan. And there, they meet Neanderthals; they mix with Neanderthals. And from there, they expand into Europe ...

For several millennia, Neanderthals and modern humans interbred ... are actually "evolutionary dead ends," not ancestors of ...

The reasons for the demise of the Neanderthals some 30 thousand years ago, only a few millennia after the first appearance of modern humans in Europe, remain controversial, and are a focus of ...

Human origins expert Professor Chris Stringer discusses what this Neanderthal inheritance may have meant for the early modern humans who migrated out of Africa, and what it means for us today.

An analysis of the semicircular canals in Neanderthal ears reveals evidence of a 'bottleneck' event, leading to a reduction ...

This updated timeline for Neanderthal-modern human interbreeding "shifts and narrows the possible range of time when humans spread to places like present-day China and Australia," said NBC News.

Prior work suggested that during the mid-Middle Paleolithic (80,000 to 130,000 years ago), the southern Levant was home to at least three different groups of Homo: modern humans, Neanderthals and ...