A new skull-based analysis of Neanderthal brains suggests that these ancient hominins’ range of intelligence largely ...

Two species of humans occupied the same small cave in southern Türkiye across a span of roughly 20,000 years, and the stone ...

For most of the twentieth century, the arrival of modern humans in a region was treated as something close to a replacement event for the Neanderthals who lived there before them, two populations with ...

Language may feel like one of the most distinctly human things about you, but the genetic groundwork for it appears to be older than our own species. A new study from University of Iowa Health Care ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Penn team says missing Neanderthal DNA on the human X chromosome may reflect ancient mate choice, not toxic genes. (CREDIT: ...

Researchers at the University of Cologne use simulations to investigate the likelihood of interactions between Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans on the Iberian Peninsula / publication in ...

Neanderthal babies have always been hard to study, mostly because their remains are so rare. That scarcity has left one of the oldest arguments in human origins unsettled: were Neanderthals following ...

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 ...

When Neanderthals and our species had babies together, the prehistoric pairings tended to follow a distinct pattern: Neanderthal dads and moms who were Homo sapiens — the same as modern humans. Since ...

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 ...

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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 ...