Learn how these Neanderthal findings shaped what we know about Neanderthals and how our ancient human past is intertwined.

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Two studies came to a similar conclusion, highlighting a single, sustained event of mixing DNA. The findings could impact our understanding of when modern humans reached regions like East Asia and Aus ...

People have been fascinated by Neanderthals ever since we discovered their bones in a German cave in the mid-19th century. Their stocky bodies and huge heads give us a fun-house-mirror glimpse ...

Illustration of an encounter between a group of Neanderthals (black) and a group of modern humans (red, top row) with offspring showing recent Neanderthal ancestry (red, bottom row), imagined as a ...

They report in Science that Neanderthals and humans interbred for 7,000 years starting about 50,500 years ago. A second group ...

Scientists say they have recovered the oldest known Homo sapiens DNA from human remains found in Europe, and the information is helping to reveal our species’ shared history with Neanderthals.

it was concluded that early humans and Neanderthals reached their peak interbreeding period around 47,000 years ago. The height of this interbreeding was not "exceptional trysts but a way of life ...

Illustration of an encounter between a group of Neanderthals (black) and a group of modern humans (red, top row) with offspring showing recent Neanderthal ancestry (red, bottom row), imagined as a ...

New research reveals how genes inherited from Neanderthals and critical developmental markers like PITX2 influence tooth size, shedding light on human evolution and genetic diversity. Study ...

Eventually our bold ancestors caught up with their Neanderthal cousins and did a bit more than just make friends. A new genetic analysis of the earliest known modern human remains found in Ranis ...

Scientists have been volleying the question back and forth for more than a century. Neanderthals, which disappeared from the archaeological record roughly 40,000 years ago, have long been ...