The remains of the Lapedo Child, found in Portugal in 1998, showed signs of being both Neanderthal and human, as later confirmed by DNA. New techniques in radiocarbon dating allowed scientists to ...

The climate and early human societies were changing quickly during the fall of our closest evolutionary relative—and are big ...

When paleoanthropologists removed the bones from the dirt, they immediately noticed that the child's skeleton had a "mosaic" of Neanderthal and human features, suggesting it was a hybrid individual.

New study challenges the theory that Neanderthals originated after an evolutionary event that implied the loss of part of ...

C. G. Seligman, in the chair, a paper by Sir Arthur Keith on “The Discovery of Neanderthal Man in Malta, with an account of the Survey of the Cave in which the evidence was found (Ghar Dalam ...

Across the vastness of Eurasia, Neanderthals ... were all big-brained. Back 300,000 years ago, the Hominins — the term used to describe all species related to man since the separation of this ...

Neanderthals, our distant cousins, first appeared in Eurasia around 400,000 years ago. They’ve long been portrayed as sturdy, but brutish and dim-witted: the ultimate caveman. But ever since the ...