Neanderthals: The First Europeans (Sorry, Sapiens!) Homo sapiens may be the reigning champion of modern humanity, but when it ...

Some Neanderthals living in northwestern Europe after 52,500 years ago were remarkably diverse, suggesting that they didn't ...

A study in a cave in northern Israel suggests that pre-Neanderthal human groups were already using advanced tools, fire, and ...

“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 ...

Archaeologists in Israel have discovered a cave used by pre-Neanderthal human-like creatures who lived as long as 400,000 ...

An international study of infant remains from 50,000–75,000 years ago has provided new evidence about the developmental ...

NEW YORK -- Humans and Neanderthals cozied up from time to time when they lived in the same areas tens of thousands of years ago. But we don't know much about who got with whom, or why. A new genetic ...

Thin stretches of the human X chromosome look oddly empty when you scan for Neanderthal DNA. Geneticists even have a name for the gaps: "Neanderthal deserts." They sit there like blank tape in an ...

Some Neanderthals living in northwestern Europe after 52,500 years ago were surprisingly diverse, suggesting that they didn't ...