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

Findings, published in the journal Nature Human Behaviour, show that different hominin groups, including Homo sapiens and Neanderthal-like populations, weren't just existing in parallel.

Relatively little is known about Denisovans, an extinct group of human cousins that interacted with Neanderthals and Homo ...

Archaeologists then found human remains buried in a place known for funerary practices and rituals; however, besides homo sapiens remains, they discovered the Neanderthals. It then hit researchers ...

Understanding the differences between Neanderthal and modern human faces sheds light on our own evolution.

Facial growth stops at puberty in Homo sapiens. Humans differ from chimpanzees and Neanderthals in how their faces grow. In ...

Ancient protein analysis revealed that the oldest hominin fossil found in Taiwan belonged to a male Denisovan. Penghu 1, a ...

The most obvious possibility is that Neanderthals themselves reached China. Neanderthals are well documented in Europe, going ...