Neanderthal genes seem to have hung around long after Neanderthals themselves did, as new scientific dating of the famed ...

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

Discovered in Portugal in 1998, the individual dubbed the “Lapedo Child” has long perplexed scientists, thanks to a curious ...

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

A recent study compared features of Neanderthals' inner ears across space and time to extrapolate what happened to them tens ...

The inheritance of that interaction can be seen today: All humans now have 1 to 4 percent Neanderthal DNA in our genome. The existence of so many similarities and the ability to hybridize have ...

Neanderthal fossils show a major population drop 110,000 years ago. Researchers link this to reduced genetic diversity.

For thousands of years, Neanderthals flourished across Eurasia. But new research suggests their genetic diversity plummeted ...

New research has found that the skeleton of a child with both Neanderthal and modern human traits has been dated […] ...

A new study suggests that Neanderthals experienced a dramatic loss of genetic variation during the course of their evolution, foreshadowing their eventual extinction. Examination of semicircular ...

It was long believed that no significant changes occurred throughout the evolution of Neanderthals, yet recent paleogenetic research based on DNA samples extracted from fossils revealed the ...