The search for new antibiotics is going back to the Stone Age. Bioengineers are using AI-based computational methods to mine genetic info from Neanderthals and more.

Neanderthals and humans interbred roughly 50,000 years ago, ... Our Neanderthal DNA may reduce our body's ability to fight infections in this way.

Reviving extinct antibiotic molecules encoded in the DNA of Neanderthals and Denisovans could provide a new weapon in the fight against antimicrobial resistance.. Last year, César de la Fuente at ...

A Neanderthal had a wider pelvis and lower center of gravity than Homo sapiens, which would have made him a powerful grappler. That doesn't mean, however, that we would be an easy kill.

Neanderthals probably had tactical and strategic advantages. ... But this wasn’t because they were less inclined to fight. In the end, we likely just became better at war than they were.

Fight them? Love them? The recent discovery of a group called Denisovans, a Neanderthal-like group who populated Asia and South Asia, added its own set of questions.

Interestingly, author William Golding flipped the script more than 30 years later with his 1955 novel, The Inheritors, which came out a year after Lord of the Flies, his acclaimed debut novel. The ...

Some Neanderthal gene variants are associated with an increased inflammatory response, which may have helped early humans fight infections and heal wounds more quickly.

The hominins who are our most direct ancestors split from the Neanderthal family tree about 600,000 years ago, then evolved our modern physical characteristics about 250,000 years ago. “From then ...

The teeth from a Neanderthal nicknamed Thorin were found in a cave in France. He lived about 40,000 to 45,000 years ago in an isolated community of the now extinct hominins.