The first-ever published research out of Tinshemet Cave indicates the two human species regularly interacted and shared technologies and customs.

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Neanderthals and modern humans overlapped and shared ideas for about 50,000 years in what is now ...

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

The Real Neanderthal, a new documentary from The Nature ... people we call Neanderthals and the people whom we call modern humans in Africa were doing at the same time.” But the most amazing ...

The human face is strikingly distinct from our fossil cousins and ancestors—most notably, it is significantly smaller, and ...

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 ...

Scientists have dated the skeleton of an ancient child that caused a stir when it was first discovered because it carries features from both humans and Neanderthals. AP When the humanlike child ...

Once the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced roughly a decade after the find, it began the process of understanding the interbreeding between humans and Neanderthals and how ancient Neanderthal ...