A team of paleoanthropologists and geneticists from Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, EFS, ADES has found evidence of what may have ...

Almost two centuries after the first Neanderthal was discovered, we are still learning a great deal about our ancient ...

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Learn how interbreeding with Neanderthals may have bolstered our immune systems.

Human populations that left Africa evolved quickly whereas Neanderthals stayed the same, according to an analysis of blood ...

We’ve evolved immensely, but can still benefit from thinking about ancient humans and how they lived their lives. Here’s why.

And their legacy persists — not just in the archaeological record, but in our very genes. Some modern-day people have 2 percent Neanderthal DNA, according to Prof. Chris Stringer, a leading human ...

A 6-year-old’s beach find turns out to be a 60,000-year-old Neanderthal hand axe, now displayed in Worthing Museum.

Cancel anytime. The interesting piece on potential sequencing of the Neanderthal genome and subsequent recreation of a specimen poses complex and worrisome ethical questions. ("Should AI be used ...