Learn more about a new simulation that predicts how Neanderthals migrated from Eastern Europe to Eurasia.

New research reveals that our extinct Neanderthal relatives were surprisingly savvy navigators who used rivers to zip across ...

It is the first time researchers use data from ... A New Timeline for Neanderthal Interbreeding With Modern Humans Dec. 12, 2024 — Neanderthal genes make up 1-2% of the genomes of non-Africans.

In 1958, a seemingly insignificant discovery made by farmers in the Guangdong province of southern China would soon challenge ...

A red dot on a face-shaped stone in Spain may well break records. Approximately 43,000 years old, this dot could be the ...

A unique archaeological find has recently expanded our knowledge of Neanderthals' capacity for symbolic thought. The object ...

Modern humans wandered in from the southeast and found a continent already home to a very different kind of human: the ...

Neanderthals may have trekked thousands of miles across Eurasia much faster than we ever imagined. New computer simulations ...

Recent scholarship has concluded that Neanderthals made a second major migration from Eastern Europe to Central and Eastern ...

Instead, various traits we associate with anatomically modern humans probably appeared in a type of “mosaic evolution” that Neanderthals also seem to have exhibited. Modern humankind “wasn ...

Computer simulated paths of Neanderthal dispersals demonstrate they could have reached the Altai Mountains in Siberia within 2,000 years during warm climatic conditions in one of two ancient time ...

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