A groundbreaking genetic study has uncovered a Neanderthal population in France that remained completely isolated for 50,000 ...

Neanderthal populations suffered a single late genetic bottleneck, refuting long-held theories about their diversity.

Modern humans were essentially like waves crashing on a beach, slowly but steadily eroding the beach away.” With this vivid ...

Languages: English, Spanish A "truly extraordinary" Neanderthal skeleton covered in "cave popcorn" is shedding new light on some of the mysteries of human evolution. Known as the "Altamura Man ...

Up until recently, the consensus was that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens were separate species. But most humans carry about 2% of Neanderthal DNA, challenging the view that we are different.

The discovery could deepen our understanding of the Neanderthal mind, but some experts aren’t convinced by the interpretation ...

Why did Neanderthals go extinct ... Chris Stringer, a professor and research leader on human evolution at the Natural History Museum in London, said pinpointing the interbreeding event helps ...

Our human evolution expert Professor Chris Stringer, who has been studying Neanderthals and Homo sapiens for about 50 years, tackles the big question of whether we belong to the same species. Everyone ...

This reconstruction of a female Neanderthal was made using ancient ... galvanized scientists eager to explore new theories of evolution, sparking a worldwide fossil hunt and tantalizing the ...

“By including fossils from a wide geographical and temporal range, we were able to capture a comprehensive picture of Neanderthal evolution,” said Mercedes Conde-Valverde, a paleontologist ...

Neanderthals were never in Africa ... The genetic code of the long-dead species could shed light on the evolution of humans, researchers say. Nov. 16, 2006 Dr. Eric Green, director of the National ...

That likely created strong evolutionary pressure to remove such harmful Neanderthal genes from the modern human X, Emilia Huerta-Sanchez, an associate professor of ecology, evolution, and ...