Neanderthal skull discovered in 1908 in France. (Luna04/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 3.0) In 1857, the German anatomist Hermann ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

Archaeological evidence of material exchange indicates that Neanderthals also possessed networks. However, relative to the ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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