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”.

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." On the basis ...

A Neanderthal skill (left) and a modern human skull (right). © Philipp Gunz, License: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 While closely related, Neanderthals and modern humans split ...

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.

To investigate the archaic ancestry of the living human population, Akey and Vernot set to work searching for Neanderthal DNA in modern genomes. They developed a statistical approach to identify ...

Less good is the fact that Neanderthal DNA can leave individuals predisposed to developing skin lesions called keratoses, ...

New evidence confirms suspicions that early modern humans, which left Africa some 300,000 to ... evolutionary studies.Thanks to last year’s complete sequencing of the Neanderthal genome, the ...

A reconstruction of a Neanderthal woman's face, based on a skull unearthed in Shanidar cave in Iraqi Kurdistan. The skull belonged to a woman who died around 75,000 years ago and was crushed to bits.