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

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

How big they were: 5'1" to 5'4" (1.50 to 1.75 meters) and 145 to 180 lbs (62 to 84 kilograms) The Neanderthals were our closest human relatives, and roamed the Earth hundreds of thousands of years ...

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 ...

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 ...

Scientists have long agreed that early humans mated with Neanderthals, but a pair of recent studies have shed light on when exactly this DNA mixing occurred. Such a revelation could help ...