For the past 40,000 years, Homo sapiens have been the only human species on Earth. Our ancestors, including the Neanderthals ...

People with Chiari malformations have a skull shape similar to Neanderthals, suggesting that the condition may be caused by ...

The researchers believe that Neanderthals, an extinct species of human known to have lived in that area as far back as ...

At first glance, fossilized Neanderthal bones seem human-like. But a closer look reveals the characteristics that differentiate our ancient ancestors from modern Homo sapiens .

A new DNA model suggests humans didn't reach Australia until 50,000 years ago, but archaeological data disagrees.

Roughly 43,000 years ago, a Neanderthal man dipped his finger in red ocher and painted a nose on a rock that looked like a human face. This is the scenario presented by archaeologists in a paper ...

"You know, this image of Neanderthals being brutes, is not quite accurate," says paleogenticist Laurits Skov. "The more we learn about them, the more like humans they appear to be." ...

Recent bio-mechanical analyses have established beyond a doubt that Neanderthals walked upright like us, says Rebecca Wragg Sykes, an archeologist at the University of Liverpool, and author of the ...

Remnants of Neanderthal DNA in modern genomes have long prompted questions about interspecies mating. Two studies shed light on when that occurred — and when ancient humans left Africa.

And in that way, more than in any specific detail, Neanderthals would have been a lot like us. Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology, 2023 DOI: 10.3389/fearc.2023.1097815 ; Science Advances, 2023 ...

Neanderthal Genes Are Linked to Severe Covid Risk. ... Here’s what that process looks like, and why applying it to Covid could be challenging. Illustration: Ryan Trefes.