We know from the traces left behind in our DNA that Homo sapiens met and mingled with Neanderthals long before our species ...

Neanderthal babies have always been hard to study, mostly because their remains are so rare. That scarcity has left one of the oldest arguments in human origins unsettled: were Neanderthals following ...

A geneticist affiliated with Harvard Medical School and the Broad Institute has proposed that Neanderthals did not evolve ...

A new analysis of ancient DNA has found that Neanderthal genomes contain 62 percent more ancestry from anatomically modern ...

Your stereotypical leering barbarian chief has access to mass-produced food for his harem of abducted princesses and their children, whether it be access to farmland, a flock of livestock, and/or ...

Discoveries at a Üçağızlı II cave in southern Turkey suggest that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens made similar tools, hunted ...

Based on artifacts found in a limestone cave on the Mediterranean coast, scientists think the two species might have shared ...

Comparison of Modern Human and Neanderthal skulls from the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. Credit: DrMikeBaxter/Wikipedia In recent years, scientists have uncovered evidence that modern humans ...

When I explain my research interests to new acquaintances, I’m often asked questions like “what would you do if you met a ...

Scientists have long known that ancient Homo sapiens and Neanderthals lived alongside each other for thousands of years—until ...

“Before the last glacial period, Neanderthals had diverse maternal lineages. As ice sheets advanced and habitable territory shrank, survivors appear to have concentrated in a climate refugium in ...

Denies I accurately described viewpoint, follows up by expressing that viewpoint. Social skills are the most effective evolutionary strategy for social animals, which is the painfully obvious thing ...