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 ...

The first-ever published research out of Tinshemet Cave indicates the two human species regularly interacted and shared technologies and customs.

The real "end" of the Neanderthals was probably more a quiet ebbing away than a dramatic finale. And 2024 study in the journal Science found that up to 3.7% of the Neanderthal genome came from ...

The Real Neanderthal, a new documentary from The Nature ... people we call Neanderthals and the people whom we call modern humans in Africa were doing at the same time.” But the most amazing ...

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Your Neanderthal genes might be the reason you fight infections better- find out how ancient DNA shapes your health!

Scientists have dated the skeleton of an ancient child that caused a stir when it was first discovered because it carries features from both humans and Neanderthals. AP When the humanlike child ...

A small team of computational and evolutionary biologists from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Zhongshan ...