An analysis of the semicircular canals in Neanderthal ears reveals evidence of a 'bottleneck' event, leading to a reduction ...

Recent fossil analysis is reshaping our understanding of Neanderthal origins, questioning long-held assumptions about their ...

After four failed attempts, scientists have at last dated the skeleton of a possible human-Neanderthal hybrid found in ...

The first-ever published research out of Tinshemet Cave indicates the two human species regularly interacted and shared ...

The new approach to radiocarbon dating could soon be applied to other Paleolithic human sites, improving our understanding of ...

New study challenges the theory that Neanderthals originated after an evolutionary event that implied the loss of part of ...

The researchers suggested that the child was descended from populations in which humans and Neanderthals mated and mixed. It ...

Neanderthal fossils show a major population drop 110,000 years ago. Researchers link this to reduced genetic diversity.

Neanderthal genes seem to have hung around long after Neanderthals themselves did, as new scientific dating of the famed ...

Scientists have successfully dated the remains of the Lapedo Child, which possesses a "mosaic" of Human and Neanderthal ...

Unique versions of the lactase gene found in the genomes of East Asian people may have increased in prevalence within the ...