A Neanderthal skull from Forbes' Quarry, Gibraltar. (AquilaGib/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0) Genetic deterioration may not ...

Until recently, the idea of cloning a Neanderthal seemed exclusively a science fiction plot. However, today such issues are ...

When I explain my research interests to new acquaintances, I’m often asked questions like “what would you do if you met a ...

Eight Neanderthal teeth recovered from a single cave in southern Poland have produced the oldest reconstructed family group ...

Some Neanderthals living in northwestern Europe after 52,500 years ago were surprisingly diverse, suggesting that they didn't ...

A new analysis of ancient DNA has found that Neanderthal genomes contain 62 percent more ancestry from anatomically modern ...

Genetic analysis of Neanderthals in north-western Europe reveals that this population was surprisingly genetically diverse, ...

Analysis of 27 genomes reveals more diverse, better-connected populations and challenges the idea that genetic decline caused their disappearance ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Humans and Neanderthals cozied up from time to time when they lived in the same areas tens of thousands of years ago. But we don’t know much about who got with whom, or why. A new ...

A rare Neanderthal fetus reveals that many traits distinguishing Neanderthals from modern humans likely developed only after birth.

BUFFALO, N.Y. — When the ancestors of modern humans migrated out of Africa, they passed through the Middle East and Turkey before heading deeper into Asia and Europe. Here, at this important ...