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

they point to effects of Neanderthal DNA on similar systems to what’s been seen previously.” After the 2013 discovery that Neanderthals interbred with the ancestors of modern Europeans, says Janet ...

The new research showed that both chimpanzees and Neanderthals had larger, faster-growing faces, while modern humans have ...

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.

even kindly middle-aged woman. She is a far cry from the snarling, animalistic stereotype of the Neanderthal first created in 1908 after the discovery of the "old man of La Chapelle." On the basis ...

But many early modern humans also lived in caves - some of the most famous examples being the original Cro-Magnon Man, found in France ... It is generally regarded as belonging to an early Neanderthal ...

even kindly middle-aged woman. She is a far cry from the snarling, animalistic stereotype of the Neanderthal first created in 1908 after the discovery of the “old man of La Chapelle”.

One of the most fascinating discoveries in recent years is the evidence that Neanderthal DNA still exists in modern humans and continues to play a protective role in our immune system and overall ...

This past summer, Paabo announced that he and his co-workers were going to take the next—and biggest—step, in their effort to resurrect the genome of the Neanderthal, our distant evolutionary ...

The remains of the Lapedo Child, found in Portugal in 1998, showed signs of being both Neanderthal and human ... mosaic of Neanderthal and anatomically modern human features argued to reflect ...