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

This year, we learned that our Neanderthal cousins were a lot like us, despite treading their own path that ended in ...

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 ...

Human DNA recovered from remains found in Europe is revealing our species’ shared history with Neanderthals. The trove is the ...

University of California, Berkeley Assistant Professor’s Study Provides a New Timeline for Neanderthal Interbreeding with ...

These early modern humans and the Neanderthals had babies. "Most people that live today outside of Africa have about 1 to 2% ...

Previous reconstructions of Neanderthal ribcages, such as Kebara 2 from Kebara Cave in Israel, have also relied on relatively intact remains. In the study, titled "Shanidar 3 'rings the bell ...

Study: PITX2 expression and Neanderthal introgression in HS3ST3A1 contribute to variation in tooth dimensions in modern ...

The major difference between Cro-Magnon and Neanderthal indicates that Neanderthals were outcompeted by the former.

Neanderthal deserts in the genome In 2016, Moorjani pioneered a method for inferring the timing of Neanderthal gene flow using often incomplete genomes of ancient individuals. At that time, only ...

Several scientific studies confirm that both species coexisted for seven millennia and even reproduced among themselves.