Currently, there are several hypotheses surrounding the disappearance of Neanderthals. While they all have at least some ...

Neanderthals may have never truly gone extinct, according to new research – at least not in the genetic sense. A new ...

Features like sizable noses, protruding brow ridges, and strong lower jaws gave them a distinct appearance. But since the ...

New research posits that a genetic incompatibility between female offspring of humans and Neanderthals and their children ...

By studying Neanderthal DNA, researchers shed light on key genetic factors that contribute to the unique structure of human faces.

By comparing the human and Neanderthal genomes, the researchers discovered only three single-letter differences in a short ...

Scientists at the University of Edinburgh discovered that a Neanderthal DNA region activates a jaw-forming gene, SOX9, more ...

We now have only the second high-quality genome from an ancient Denisovan human, which reveals there were more populations of ...

The ability to make art has often been considered a hallmark of our species. Over a century ago, prehistorians even had ...

Turns out we have a lot more in common with Neanderthals than we thought. In a stunning breakthrough, researchers at Germany's Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology have mapped the ...