A latest study utilizing advanced spatial modeling has revealed that neither climate change nor direct competition with early modern humans can fully explain the disappearance of Neanderthals from ...

A remarkable genetic breakthrough has uncovered what may be one of the clearest snapshots yet of a Neanderthal “community” ...

A new study uncovers a subtle but powerful factor that may have tipped the balance between Neanderthals and early humans.

A new modeling study suggests that greater connectivity between groups may have given Homo sapiens the edge over Neanderthals ...

Specific genomic regions that seem to play a role in human language development evolved hundreds of thousands of years ago, before humans and Neanderthals diverged from a common ancestor, a new study ...

A new study found that a pachyderm skeleton, dismissed for decades as unimportant, offers evidence of careful planning, ...

When the climate cooled, the population of Neanderthals shrank. Most that lived between 60,000 and 40,000 years ago were ...

Maternal DNA from Neanderthal teeth found in Stajnia Cave show Neanderthals moved across wide areas of Europe.

The study was led by Ariane Burke, an anthropologist at the University of Montreal’s Department of Anthropology. Her team ...

The latest genetic research from Stajnia Cave in southern Poland has successfully reconstructed the genetic profile of the oldest known group of Neanderthals in Central-Eastern Europe. The findings, ...

They're regularly depicted as primitive and brutish - but Neanderthals were just as smart as humans, according to a study.

New interpretations suggest that Neanderthal and Sapiens interactions were shaped by biology and social structure, not simple ...