Neanderthal genes seem to have hung around long after Neanderthals themselves did, as new scientific dating of the famed ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence that modern humans emerged from two long-separated ancestral groups, not just one. This ...

A newly excavated cave in Israel holds burials and artifacts suggesting that multiple human species commingled and shared ...

The climate and early human societies were changing quickly during the fall of our closest evolutionary relative—and are big ...

Neanderthal fossils show a major population drop 110,000 years ago. Researchers link this to reduced genetic diversity.

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Neanderthal Genes Could Explain Why Some of Us Are Morning People Quam and his colleagues analyzed three groups of Neanderthals, comparing the semicircular canals of “pre-Neanderthal” and earl ...

The two groups interbreed throughout the Middle Paleolithic.” Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis) were a group of humans who interbred with anatomically modern humans (Homo sapiens) but looked ...

New study challenges the theory that Neanderthals originated after an evolutionary event that implied the loss of part of ...

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 ...

Basically all of humanity is descended from people who left Africa and mixed with Neanderthals—but when? A study of a handful of very old bones revealed that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens were ...

Neanderthals and modern humans overlapped and shared ideas for about 50,000 years in what is now Israel, a new study finds. . | Credit: Efrat Bakshitz Archaeologists in Israel have discovered five ...