When scientists sequenced the first Neanderthal genomes, they did not just resurrect a lost branch of the human family tree, they uncovered a living legacy inside most people alive today. A small but ...

Every face carries a story, shaped long before birth by a quiet choreography of genes switching on and off at just the right moment. A new study suggests that part of that story reaches far back into ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Far from wiping out Neanderthals overnight, modern humans rubbed along with their shorter and stockier cousins for thousands of years, giving plenty of time for the two groups to ...

While Neanderthals vanished thousands of years ago, their genetic legacy continues shaping modern human life in subtle yet significant ways. Research findings are available online in the journal ...

Gene variants in red blood cell function may have doomed the hybrid babies of Neanderthals and modern humans. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

Researchers have found Neanderthal footprints that date back approximately 78,000 years on the shores of Monte Clérigo Beach, located in southern Portugal. These ancient tracks, left by a Neanderthal ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. When scientists sequenced the Neanderthal genome in 2010, they learned that Neanderthals ...

Rebecca Wragg Sykes argues that we’ve spent too much time studying the way Neanderthals interacted with Homo Sapiens and too little studying the way Neanderthals interacted with each other. So she ...

Art is often held up as the most “human” of human endeavors. For millennia, philosophers, historians, and archaeologists have used art and symbolic thinking as behavioral indices for what makes humans ...