The Lapedo Child was a four-year-old who was discovered in Portugal in 1998 who showed genetic traits from both Neanderthals ...

Recent testing shows the remains are around 28,000 years old, which supports the idea that these populations did more than ...

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 ...

We are just one branch of a diverse human family tree. Aside from Neanderthals, who were they – and why did we replace them?

It's currently unknown if these burials belong to early modern humans, human-Neanderthal hybrids ... this time and place ...

Here’s how it works. Neanderthal genes seen in modern humans may have entered our DNA through an interval of interbreeding starting about 47,000 years ago that lasted nearly 7,000 years ...

A Neanderthal skill ... preference for less aggressive features—an idea called the human self-domestication hypothesis. “Facial gracilization in modern humans may be linked to behavioral ...

Analysis of male Denisovan and Neanderthal genomes demonstrated that PAR2 was present on both X and Y as in modern humans. Rearrangement had to occur before the split between archaic and modern ...

Staring into the twinkling eyes in the weathered features of the Neanderthal man, it's possible to feel a ... Museum's Human Evolution gallery is 175cm tall and in his fifties Early modern humans were ...

But some Neanderthal DNA helped modern humans survive and reproduce, and thus it has lingered in our genomes. Nowadays, Neanderthal DNA occupies, on average, 2% of the genomes of people outside ...

This reconstruction of a female Neanderthal was made using ancient DNA evidence. Our ancient ancestors looked similar to modern humans but with more prominent brows and big teeth and eyes.

The evidence for Neanderthal cave art is compromised by unresolved methodological issues and is unlikely to be correct, in my view. Rapidly accumulating evidence for the pre-40,000-year presence of ...