In August 1856, in the German valley of Neander—Neanderthal in German—men cutting limestone for the Prussian construction industry stumbled upon some bones in a cave. Looking vaguely human ...

The first ancient human fossils that scientists discovered were of Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis) in the late 1840s. However, it wasn't until the 1990s and 2000s that they were confirmed to ...

The Neanderthals are probably the most famous of this bunch, but at roughly the same time there were the Denisovans, Homo heidelbergensis, Homo naledi, and Homo erectus, as well as diminutive ...

"Humans picked up some Neanderthal DNA through interbreeding, while the Neanderthal population, always fairly small, was ...

Neanderthals and modern humans had a fascinatingly intertwined past. We know, from studies of our own DNA, that when the ...

In this new series, Human, paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi reveals our incredible story across 300,000 years of human ...

The skull of a 5-year-old girl who lived 140,000 years ago has similarities with modern Homo sapiens and Neanderthals, ...

Recent research suggests that some of these genetic variants inherited from Neanderthals could be linked to autism spectrum ...

People with Chiari malformations have a skull shape similar to Neanderthals, suggesting that the condition may be caused by ...

We’re all a little Neanderthal. That’s the conclusion of a study that used a new statistical technique to revise estimates of the degree to which modern humans have retained Neanderthal DNA.

Neanderthal-human offspring may have been infertile or sterile%2C findings suggest But Neanderthals may have helped make humans more adaptable%2C as well Today%27s Europeans and East Asians owe 1 ...

“We now know that for the vast majority of human history, we've had a history of contact between modern humans and Neanderthals,” said Akey. The hominins who are our most direct ancestors split from ...