Discover new clues about how our ancient relatives disappeared from time.

For tens of thousands of years, two species — Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans — shared vast landscapes.

Most people have some amount of Neanderthal DNA from the extinct cousins of modern humans who lived in Europe and Asia until about 40,000 years ago. New research on available Neanderthal genetic ...

A preference for pairings between male Neanderthals and female Homo sapiens may answer the question of why there are ...

Around 2% of modern humans carry Neanderthal DNA, meaning we know early humans got super intimate with our now-extinct relatives. According to new research, when Neanderthals and humans did hit it off ...

By sequencing ancient DNA from the fetus, scientists revealed a severe genetic bottleneck that reshaped Neanderthal history ...

Genome analysis reveals that Neanderthals lived on the brink of extinction for 350,000 years in small populations.

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A study incorporating new DNA data and archaeological evidence has shown that the last Neanderthals in Europe experienced a ...

Humans are actually limited in how much protein they can metabolize for energy, meaning early humans really needed a more ...

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 ...