and pronounced brow ridge set it apart from both modern humans and Neanderthals. This unique combination has left researchers debating whether it belongs to a separate lineage or represents a ...

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

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 ...

Neanderthal DNA strengthens the immune system and regulates inflammation Denisovan genes help with altitude adaptation and oxygen use Paleogenetics reveals that human evolution is more complex ...

Researchers from the University of Washington excavating a site in China have found Neanderthal tools dating back almost 55,000 years. Their findings were published March 31 in Proceedings of the ...

Modern humans have uniquely small and flat faces, especially compared with our Neanderthal cousins' notoriously robust faces and large noses, but the reason for this difference has eluded ...

Our closest extinct relatives, Neanderthals, existed thousands of years ago. Here are 10 interesting facts about their lives, brains, and survival. Neanderthals existed in Europe and Asia from ...

Neanderthals might have lived in today’s southwestern China during the Middle Stone Age, newly discovered tools similar to those previously found only in Europe and the Middle East suggest. An ...

"Compared to Neanderthals and chimpanzees who continue growing longer, human facial growth stops earlier, around adolescence, resulting in a smaller adult face." The study is published in the ...

Quina is one of a number of stone tool styles associated with Neanderthals that archaeologists call Mousterian culture.The unprecedented discovery at Longtan had "significant implications ...