While new studies have reinforced the idea of Neanderthal and Homo sapiens admixture in Europe, the picture in South Asia ...

Learn how interbreeding with Neanderthals may have bolstered our immune systems.

According to some experts, six human species existed simultaneously around 60,000 years ago. They were Neanderthals, ...

Their legacy lives on in the genomes of most people on Earth, thanks to interbreeding between Homo sapiens and Neanderthals. New research is providing the most precise estimate to date of when ...

Stunning discoveries and fresh breakthroughs in DNA analysis are changing our understanding of our own evolution and offering a new picture of the "other humans" that our ancestors met across Europe ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Neanderthals went extinct roughly 39,000 years ago, but in some sense these close cousins of our species are not gone. Their legacy lives on in the genomes of most people on ...

This year, we learned that our Neanderthal cousins were a lot like us, despite treading their own path that ended in ...