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

Baby Neanderthals may have been much larger and grown much more quickly than their modern Homo sapiens counterparts, according to a new study of the most intact Neanderthal infant skeleton.

Thin stretches of the human X chromosome look oddly empty when you scan for Neanderthal DNA. Geneticists even have a name for the gaps: “Neanderthal deserts.” They sit there like blank tape in an ...

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

Researchers at the University of Cologne use simulations to investigate the likelihood of interactions between Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans on the Iberian Peninsula / publication in ...

This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. Among the many other human species that once inhabited ...

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 ...

The latest research on a Neanderthal infant from Amud Cave in Israel is giving a clearer picture of how different early development may have been in o.

Roughly 59,000 years ago, deep inside a limestone cave in what is now the Altai Mountains of Siberia, a Neanderthal sat with ...

Neanderthals had the know-how to identify a tooth infection and the motor skills to drill out the damage, according to a ...