For decades, we've thought of our Neanderthal cousins as brutish, primitive beings. Second-class humans driven extinct by their own fallibility and stupidity. But as we are fast learning ...

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 ...

“This population would later contribute about 80 percent of the genetic material of modern humans and also seems to have been the ancestral population from which Neanderthals and Denisovans diverged.” ...

Artwork on the schematical representation of the distribuition of morphological variation of the inner ear along time in Neanderthals. Credit: Alessandro Urciuoli, Institut Català de Paleop An ...

After four failed attempts, scientists have at last dated the skeleton of a possible human-Neanderthal hybrid found in Portugal more than two decades ago. The famous and mysterious Lapedo child lived ...

Life appearance reconstruction of a Neanderthal male at the Natural History Museum of London. Credit: Allan Henderson, under CC BY 2.0 New study challenges the theory that Neanderthals originated ...

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These findings are likely linked to Neanderthal habitation. Hassanpour added that the discovery of painted buff ware and red ware from the Chalcolithic period (over 5,500 years ago) indicates the cave ...

The scientists now plan to study the remains at Tinshemet Cave in greater detail to see if they are hybrids of modern humans and Neanderthals, Zaidner said. "I eagerly await detailed descriptions ...

The study, published yesterday (11 March), is revolutionary in that the findings include overwhelming evidence that Neanderthals and people in the region not only coexisted but also shared aspects ...

In central Israel, a key archaeological discovery connects two different species of human — Homo sapiens and Neanderthals — not only crossed paths, but that they may have engaged in cultural ...