Less good is the fact that Neanderthal DNA can leave individuals predisposed to developing skin lesions called keratoses, ...

Imagine standing face-to-face with a Neanderthal, looking into eyes that reflect a world both alien and achingly familiar.

In a time long before cities, farms, or even written words, early humans across the Levant were already shaping a complex story of connection, identity, and cultural exchange. Between 130,000 and ...

To investigate the archaic ancestry of the living human population, Akey and Vernot set to work searching for Neanderthal DNA in modern genomes. They developed a statistical approach to identify ...

Findings, published in the journal Nature Human Behaviour, show that different hominin groups, including Homo sapiens and Neanderthal-like populations, weren't just existing in parallel.

Modern humans and Neanderthals are classified as separate species. According to biologists, they shouldn’t have been able to ...

Thorin was the name given to a Neanderthal specimen found amongst a small group of Neanderthals that lived ... This last culture of Neanderthals would have lived alongside a large group of Homo ...

A cave in Israel reveals traces of coexistence between Neanderthals and Homo sapiens that differs significantly from what was previously imagined. The discoveries suggest advanced cultural and ...

It may be a politically incorrect to say it, but desperate times require words commensurate with the existential threat of ...

A Neanderthal skill (left ... “We have identified a unique developmental pattern seen exclusively in Homo sapiens.” “Microscopically, this is reflected in reduced amounts of bone resorption ...