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.

When you imagine the evolution of homosapien it’s easy to imagine our great ape ancestors turning into upright versions and ...

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 ...

Learn how bed bugs became our oldest known pest as they co-evolved with humans, starting with our Neanderthal ancestors.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Semicircular canals shed light on bottleneck events in the evolution of the Neanderthal clade. Nature Communications , 2025; 16 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-56155-8 Cite This Page : ...