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

Neanderthal genes in living people seem to have come from one phase of mating around 55,000 to 60,000 years ago, yet we know from DNA in Homo sapiens fossils that mating was happening earlier and ...

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

A New Timeline for Neanderthal Interbreeding With Modern ... today's dogs -- and asks an 'existential question': What is a ... A Fossil First: Scientists Find 1.5-Million-Year-Old Footprints ...

it remains a possibility that the Nesher Ramla individuals were the ancestors of the Neanderthals that paleoanthropologists find across Europe, those who disappear from the fossil record about ...

The scientists now plan to study the remains at Tinshemet Cave in greater detail to see if they are hybrids of modern humans and Neanderthals, Zaidner said. "I eagerly await detailed descriptions of ...