The Levant region of the Middle East has long been recognized as a mixing pot of early humans and Neanderthals, some local and some on their way to and from other geographical regions. The many ...

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Humans and Neanderthals didn’t just coexist – they mingled, competed, and even had children together. Neanderthals lived in Europe and Asia for hundreds of thousands of years before modern humans ...

Neanderthal DNA strengthens the immune system and regulates inflammation Denisovan genes help with altitude adaptation and oxygen use Paleogenetics reveals that human evolution is more complex ...

“This population would later contribute about 80 percent of the genetic material of modern humans and also seems to have been the ancestral population from which Neanderthals and Denisovans diverged.” ...

Modern humans and Neanderthals are classified as separate species. According to biologists, they shouldn’t have been able to breed. But they did. We know this because many of us have some ...

Artwork on the schematical representation of the distribuition of morphological variation of the inner ear along time in Neanderthals. Credit: Alessandro Urciuoli, Institut Català de Paleop An ...

After four failed attempts, scientists have at last dated the skeleton of a possible human-Neanderthal hybrid found in Portugal more than two decades ago. The famous and mysterious Lapedo child lived ...

Life appearance reconstruction of a Neanderthal male at the Natural History Museum of London. Credit: Allan Henderson, under CC BY 2.0 New study challenges the theory that Neanderthals originated ...

He’s also charged with stealing jewelry in Colorado Springs ... s best soups Scientists discovered 50,000-year-old viruses in Neanderthal DNA that could help explain their mysterious extinction ...