We can also learn a lot from the regions of our genome where cave man DNA is glaringly absent. The current study found some of the most prevalent Neanderthal genes are associated with thicker skin ...

Neanderthals were a close human ancestor that ... evidence points to a more sophisticated and multi-talented kind of 'caveman'. Professor James Davies, associate professor of genomics at Oxford ...

It’s common to refer to someone exhibiting impolite, antisocial, or ignorant behaviors as a Neanderthal, presumably in reference to a caveman disposition. But this cliché isn’t really accurate.

identifies Neanderthals as the cave art creators and adds to growing evidence that our closest relatives were more complex than their dim caveman stereotype might suggest. “For a long time it ...

Neanderthals as urbane sophisticates. An amusing dual premise, but the elevating genius is completely in the details. (That startling entree choice. The stylish sunglasses perched on the caveman's ...

Research shows that many humans have Neanderthal DNA. People with European or Asian backgrounds have 1% to 2% and as much as 4% if they are from East Asia — thanks to human-Neanderthal ...

In 2015, a paleoanthropology team discovered jaw remains of a roughly 42,000-year-old Neanderthal in France. Over the next several years, the team, lead by Ludovic Slimak, found more of the ...

Judging from relics uncovered in a cave in Iberia, Spain, the act of collecting may stretch at least as far back as our Neanderthal ancestry. In a study published on November 12th in the journal ...

But for one family of Neanderthals, it was home. For the first time, researchers have identified a set of closely related Neanderthals: a father and his teenage daughter and two other, more ...

DNA from prehistoric and modern-day people suggests that humans interbred with Neanderthals 47,000 years ago for a period lasting 6,800 years. When you purchase through links on our site ...

The Neanderthals represent the richest, most robust and most studied species in the hominin record, other than our own. And thanks to the wealth of available specimens — including their remains, tools ...

It’s been some 40,000 years since the last Homo neanderthalensis, or Neanderthals, disappeared from sight. Our closest human relative, the Neanderthal continues to fascinate scientists and the ...