Homo heidelbergensis is widely seen as the most likely last common ancestor of Neanderthals and modern humans. Known from ...

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

Researchers examining the brains of living people found that they differed more substantially than Neanderthals' brains ...

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 ...

Dental microwear analysis, which allows for the microscopic study of surface textures, confirmed that the marks were made ...

Researchers have found surprising links that show that Neanderthal ancestry influences our immune system today in ways more nuanced than previously recognized. Their work is published in the journal ...

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 ...

Neanderthal populations in southern Europe collected shellfish throughout the year, with a marked preference for the colder ...

A picture taken on March 26, 2018 shows a moulding of a Neanderthal man face displayed for the Neanderthal exhibition at the Musee de l'Homme in Paris - Copyright AFP ...