Research shows a link between Zlatý kůň and Ranis, early European modern humans who retained African traits, lacked ...

The 35,000-year-old rock was found in Manot Cave, which was inhabited by both prehistoric humans and Neanderthals ...

An analysis of genomes from some of the earliest modern humans to live in Europe reveals their ancestors interbred with ...

Marine Fossils Found in Cave Reveal Neanderthals Liked Collecting Objects, Shed Light on Their Cognitive Capability An ...

The Neanderthal DNA found in modern human genomes has long raised questions about ancient interbreeding. New studies offer a ...

The 6-year-old boy found the rock and then didn't tell anyone for three years. But a new examination reveals it was made by some of the last Neanderthals.

That both papers reinforce the idea that the ancestors of all people outside Africa got their Neanderthal ancestry in a single swoop is “striking”, says Alexander Platt, a geneticist at the ...

While Neanderthals and modern humans lived together in Europe for only a relatively short time, two separate studies found ...

Why did Neanderthals go extinct ... look at these events from the past and really reconstruct what our paths look like,” said an author of the Science paper, Priya Moorjani, an assistant ...

Two recent studies suggest that the gene flow (as the young people call it these days) between Neanderthals and our species happened during a short period sometime between 50,000 and 43,500 years ago.

A pair of new studies sheds light on a pivotal but mysterious chapter of the human origin story, revealing that modern humans and Neanderthals had babies together for an extended period ...