The woman, known as Shanidar Z, is a 75,000-year-old female Neanderthal ... and that’s how they like it. “If I’m working on ...

How do you tell? Our close evolutionary cousins, the Neanderthals, make look like us but there are distinct features in their skulls that set them apart. Palaeoanthropologist describes the main ...

Ancestors or Relics? Neanderthals have long fascinated scientists and the general public alike. Are they our distant ...

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 ...

There has been some incredible research into the role this DNA plays in modern human neurodevelopment, so here's an overview ...