Eight Neanderthal teeth recovered from a single cave in southern Poland have yielded mitochondrial genomes belonging to at ...

New research suggests that Neanderthal brains developed differently from modern human brains in a subtle but important way.

Using a specially developed simulation model, researchers at the University of Cologne have traced and analysed the dynamics of possible encounters between Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans ...

Figure 1: Computer simulations of population density of Neanderthals (left) and Homo sapiens (right) 43,000 years ago (upper) and 38,000 years ago (lower). Orange (green) circles indicate ...

The remains were found 10 years ago in Iraq, where researchers have been digging up a burial site since the 1950s. Ten years ago, archeologists found the remains of a shattered skull. In the years ...

Human evolution expert Professor Chris Stringer has studied Neanderthals his entire career. Here, he tells us what scientists have uncovered about the lifestyle of these early humans, their ...

Ever since the first Neanderthal bones were discovered in 1856, people have wondered about these ancient hominins. How are they different from us? How much are they like us? Did our ancestors get ...

Neanderthals and modern humans split from a common ancestor around 500,000 years ago, with Neanderthals leaving Africa for Europe and Asia long before modern humans joined them hundreds of thousands ...

The Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis) fascinate researchers and the general public alike. They remain central to debates about the nature of the genus Homo (the broad biological classification that ...