When modern humans journeyed out of Africa, a rapid evolution in their red blood cells may have helped them survive — but it may have also led to the eventual disappearance of Neanderthals, a new ...

For more than a century, the disappearance of Neanderthals has been framed as a story of extinction, a vanishing act that cleared the stage for Homo sapiens. A new wave of genetic and archaeological ...

The news that everybody except Africans have Neanderthal blood is causing shock waves around the world. In case you missed this latest jolt to human pride... The news that everybody except Africans ...

But the structure of the bony labyrinth — a rigid area surrounding the inner ear, too small to see except with micro-CT — was a closer match to the anatomy of Neanderthals. The shape of the lower jaw, ...

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Modern humans and Neanderthals were interacting 100,000 years earlier than previously thought, according to researchers who used CT scans and 3D mapping to study the bones of a ...

The discovery rewrites the history of interbreeding between Homo sapiens and Neanderthals. In a new study published in the journal l’Anthropologie, scientists have identified the earliest-known ...

In the Altai mountains of southern Siberia, there's a cave that was inhabited for millennia. It's called Denisova, and it shelters something remarkable: the bones of different types of ancient human ...