stemming from an ancient period where humans and Neanderthals interbred, a genetics expert told DailyMail.com. It’s believed ...

A new paper says genes from our extinct Neanderthal ancestors may contribute ... suggesting being a morning person could be ...

Human origins expert Professor Chris Stringer discusses what this Neanderthal inheritance may have meant for the early modern humans who migrated out of Africa, and what it means for us today.

The first draft of the sequence of the Neanderthal genome was published in 2010 (“Neanderthal Genome Decoded,” July/August 2010). One might think that it would tell us everything we need to ...

a geneticist and associate professor at the Harvard Medical School Department of Genetics, said Wednesday. Neanderthals first appear in the European fossil record about 400,000 years ago.

Archaeologists have uncovered intriguing similarities between the behavior of Homo sapiens and Neanderthals, one of our closest extinct relatives. In a study published in the Journal of ...

Neanderthals, far from being primitive, organised their living spaces much like modern humans do, a new study reveals. Researchers analysing artefacts and features of the Riparo Bombrini site in ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Neanderthals don’t exist anymore, and while there is a lot of debate over how they ...

Neanderthal women, who lived in the Siberian mountains around 54,000 years ago, left their homes to join their partners in other communities while the men stayed local, research suggests.

It was the name that drew Alice Moisen’s attention. She spied the book “Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art” and – perhaps because she has a bachelor’s in anthropology – it ...

New evidence suggested that a section of the Latin American population may have increased sensitivity to pain, which heightens the problem of inadequate healthcare access.

The first draft of the sequence of the Neanderthal genome was published in 2010 (“Neanderthal Genome Decoded,” July/August 2010). One might think that it would tell us everything we need to ...