New archeological discoveries, combined with cutting-edge scientific techniques, are bringing us closer than ever to Neanderthals. The Real Neanderthal, a new documentary from The Nature of Things ...

Koch Hall of Human Origins,” which opened 15 years ago. Smithsonian's Human Origins Program. What does it mean to be human ...

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

Neanderthals lived across Europe ... “There is some artistic license there, but at the heart of it is the real skull and real data on what we know about (these) people,” she said.

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 ...

DNA studies suggest that Neanderthals underwent a steep decline in genetic diversity around 110,000 years ago—a forbidding omen of the species’ disappearance approximately 70,000 years later.

The reasons for the demise of the Neanderthals some 30 thousand years ago, only a few millennia after the first appearance of modern humans in Europe, remain controversial, and are a focus of ...

Groundbreaking research showed that Neanderthals enjoyed a complete seafood diet of sharks, dolphins, and seals around ...

A new study by an international team of scholars, including faculty at Binghamton University, suggests that Neanderthals experienced a dramatic loss of genetic variation during the course of their ...

A study published in Nature Communications describes evolutionary changes in Neanderthal morphology through the analysis of their inner ear structures, known as the bony labyrinth. The research ...

His research focuses on trying to uncover the mysteries of early human life-forms: Homo sapiens, yes, but also Neanderthals and other hominins. The first hominins evolved in Africa and began to ...

A study of the inner ear bones of Neanderthals shows a significant loss of diversity in their shape around 110,000 years ago, suggesting a genetic bottleneck that contributed to Neanderthals' decline.