Neanderthal teeth study overturns 17-year-old cannibal case: child remains from Les Rois Cave in France, once cited as proof ...

Thorin’s 42,000-year-old DNA reveals 50,000 years of Neanderthal isolation, inbreeding and no mixing with modern humans.

Finds from caves in Turkey and Israel hint that different types of humans exchanged ideas even as they remained biologically distinct. | Credit: Naoki Morimoto. Deep in a limestone cave on Turkey's ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The rebuilt skull of a 75,000-year-old Neanderthal woman named Shanidar Z, after the cave in Iraqi Kurdistan where her skull was ...

A Neanderthal gene variant carried by many people in South Asia is linked to about 9.5 extra ounces of muscle in adults.

A new study found Neanderthals had wider, sturdier heel bones, while modern footwear and sedentary life may have made our ...

Most people alive today possess a small amount of Neanderthal DNA—a biological relic from tens of thousands of years ago, when Homo sapiens coexisted with our closest evolutionary cousins. A new study ...

A cave in the Dordogne George Grant MacCurdy led the five year project at Abri des Merveilles. Between 1924 and 1929, his ...

Neanderthal Gene Linked to Enhanced Muscle Growth Study Links Ancient Variant to Height, Muscle Mass, and Jaw Traits in Modern Humans ...

The study has found genetic evidence that modern humans have inherited DNA from two previously unidentified extinct ...

As we live through an era of rapid expansion in our understanding of our distant ancestors, the Neanderthals, we’re learning they may not have been so distant after all. According to a new study ...