N eanderthals managed to survive in Eurasia until around 40,000 years ago, but research indicates their population began ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

After humans first migrated out of Africa about 60,000 years ago, we started having sex with Neanderthals – a now extinct archaic but closely-related species. Now, scientists claim to have ...

The climate and early human societies were changing quickly during the fall of our closest evolutionary relative—and are big clues to the causes of their demise. This reconstruction of a ...

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 ...