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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

But Neanderthals weren't the only human relative with which H. sapiens interbred after they trekked out of Africa some 64,000 years ago.

If you regularly experience headaches, dizziness, balance problems and blurred vision, our Neanderthal cousins could be to ...

“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 ...

Take heart in this impression. A century ago, when adolescent psychology first emerged as a field of study, that was exactly ...