A study from U.S. and Chinese researchers suggests Neanderthals and early modern humans probably had similar cognitive ...

Neanderthal intelligence may have been similar to modern humans, with research showing minimal cognitive differences between ...

In 1857, the German anatomist Hermann Schaaffhausen analyzed a human fossil with "an extraordinary form" that he had never ...

Neanderthals disappeared around 40,000 years ago, and one explanation given for their disappearance is that their brains were different from those of early modern humans (Homo sapiens), who invaded ...

We appear to have more in common with our Neanderthal cousins than outward appearances would suggest. New research published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests ...

Myth under review: The idea that Neanderthals were less intelligent than Homo sapiens is being challenged by new comparative brain research. Modern parallels: Brain differences between Neanderthals ...

If you look at a Neanderthal skull and a Homo sapiens skull, they’re visibly different: Neanderthal skulls are lower and longer, whereas ours tend to be rounder. However, those differences probably ...

A reconstruction of a Neanderthal man in the human evolution exhibit at London’s Natural History Museum in January 2024. - Mike Kemp/In Pictures/In Pictures via Getty Images The 2010 discovery that ...

Homo sapiens’ interconnected networks gave them a survival edge over more isolated Neanderthals amid environmental changes.

Neanderthals used sophisticated techniques with a stone drill to treat a painful dental cavity, according to new research.

Most people today have a little Neanderthal DNA sprinkled through their genome. These genomic signals are the telltale signs that overlapping populations of ancient anatomically modern humans and ...