But modern discoveries have revealed that this human species was far from the small-brained caveman archetype. Neanderthals ...

Although they do mean different things, in my mind's eye, the words "Neanderthal" and "caveman" summoned identical images: that of savage meat-eating maniacs ripping raw meat from bone with fat ...

Neanderthals, our distant cousins, first appeared in Eurasia around 400,000 years ago. They’ve long been portrayed as sturdy, but brutish and dim-witted: the ultimate caveman. But ever since the ...

Additionally, the notion of the flower burial led many archaeologists to question what they thought they knew about Neanderthals – breaking the myth of the dumb, animalistic cave man. For further ...

If your recent ancestry lies outside of Africa, you can safely assume that you carry some Neanderthal DNA. Human origins expert Professor Chris Stringer discusses what this Neanderthal inheritance may ...

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 ...