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

Study Reveals Neanderthals Had a Good Sea Food Diet of Sharks, Dolphins and Seals Groundbreaking research showed that ...

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

Two studies came to a similar conclusion, highlighting a single, sustained event of mixing DNA. The findings could impact our ...

But the details of that evolutionary history have remained unclear. How often did ancient humans and Neanderthals interbreed? Exactly when did that happen? Why did Neanderthals go extinct ...

Scientists have long agreed that early humans mated with Neanderthals, but a pair of recent studies have shed light on when exactly this DNA mixing occurred. Such a revelation could help geneticists ...

Long ago, early humans shared the earth with several archaic human species, including Neanderthals and Denisovans. These species, were bipedal and close relatives of modern humans. They lived in ...

Homo sapiens began in Africa but Neanderthals were Eurasian. Any miscegenation would have happened after sapiens left its homeland to embark on its conquest of the world. But the details were unclear.

But the details of that evolutionary history have remained unclear. How often did ancient humans and Neanderthals interbreed? Exactly when did that happen? Why did Neanderthals go extinct, and why did ...

New research suggests at least some key distinctions date back earlier than previously estimated, hinting that modern and ...

Previous research suggests Neanderthals had stockier torsos and larger respiratory systems, potentially adaptations for thermoregulation or high-protein diets. Previous studies on Neanderthal ...

Picture shows an artist’s impression of ancient humans from Ranis, Germany and the Czech Republic traveling together 45,000 years ago (Picture: AP) Humans and Neanderthals were mingling some ...