“Neanderthals were not less intelligent than ... And then the presence of a steep forehead. They thought that this had to do with a region of the brain that was more developed.

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Eurasia and Africa were once populated by 13-tonne, 4 metre tall elephants, but their evolution has long remained a puzzle. A ...

That interbreeding left Eurasians with many genes inherited from our Neanderthal ancestors, which in total make up between 1% and 2% of our genomes today. The genome-based estimate is consistent ...

Long ago, early humans shared the earth with several archaic human species, including Neanderthals and Denisovans. These species, were bipedal and close relatives of modern humans. They lived in ...

Hidden in many people’s genetic codes is a mystery that has long intrigued scientists — a tiny slice of Neanderthal DNA that persists tens of thousands of years after the species vanished.

Scientists have spent years assembling evidence to fill out the intricate Neanderthal timeline from emergence to extinction, and the latest update has cemented a date for Neanderthal interbreeding ...

An analysis of genomes from some of the earliest modern humans to live in Europe reveals their ancestors interbred with Neanderthals in one period between 43,000 and 50,000 years ago. Neanderthals ...

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 ...

Scientists have long agreed that early humans mated with Neanderthals, but a pair of recent studies have shed light on when exactly this DNA mixing occurred. Such a revelation could help ...

According to a new reconstruction of the Neanderthal ribcage, our extinct relatives may have been considerably chunkier in this area than we are, with this extra bulk potentially providing the ...