More than a century ago, a distorted image of Neanderthals emerged. When a nearly complete skeleton was discovered in 1908 at La Chapelle-aux-Saints, France, its reconstruction led to lasting ...

An analysis of the semicircular canals in Neanderthal ears reveals evidence of a 'bottleneck' event, leading to a reduction ...

More than just mere cavemen, our Stone Age kin exhibited intelligence in surprising ways, making them more human than ...

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

The first-ever published research out of Tinshemet Cave indicates the two human species regularly interacted and shared ...

Discoveries in Tinshemet Cave reveals that the relationship between early humans and Neanderthals was more complex than originally thought.

A small team of computational and evolutionary biologists from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Zhongshan ...

Prior work suggested that during the mid-Middle Paleolithic (80,000 to 130,000 years ago), the southern Levant was home to at least three different groups of Homo: modern humans, Neanderthals and ...

Scientists have dated the skeleton of an ancient child that caused a stir when it was first discovered because it carries ...

Paleoartist Elisabeth Daynès created the sculpture. Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis), are the human species that has attracted the most attention as our closest evolutionary relatives.