Wooden objects usually decompose quickly, but periodic flooding and minerals in the water helped preserve those at a site ...

Once formally proposed as Homo stupidus and portrayed as knuckle-dragging ape-men, Neanderthals are finally receiving their ...

Introduction There is a Neanderthal inside your body. And inside mine, too. This is not a metaphor. The DNA of people whose ...

A new analysis of ancient DNA has found that Neanderthal genomes contain 62 percent more ancestry from anatomically modern humans on their X chromosomes than on the rest of their chromosomes. The ...

Neanderthals were once portrayed as primitive, dim-witted relatives of modern humans, but decades of archaeological evidence ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Penn team says missing Neanderthal DNA on the human X chromosome may reflect ancient mate choice, not toxic genes. (CREDIT: ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Neanderthal man at a human evolution exhibit at the Natural History Museum in London. There's less Neanderthal DNA on humans' X ...

The oldest wooden artifacts we have are mostly weapons. They include spears from a German town called Schöningen, a spear tip ...

Scientists have known for a while that Neanderthals occasionally mated with humans eons ago. But a study in Science adds a new layer of knowledge to the subject: It turns out that much of this mating ...

Workers cleared a German cave in 1856 and tossed out strange bones. Later studies show why those scraps changed science.

Artistic illustration of Neanderthals returning from a hunt. Credit: Hugo Prades/IPHES-CERCA. At a prehistoric rock shelter ...