This year, we learned that our Neanderthal cousins were a lot like us, despite treading their own path that ended in ...

Neanderthals interbred with modern humans 47,000 years ago, passing down DNA that still exists in many modern-day people, ...

An analysis of genomes from some of the earliest modern humans to live in Europe reveals their ancestors interbred with Neanderthals in one period between 43,000 and 50,000 years ago. Neanderthals ...

Though some might be surprised to see Neanderthal DNA in their ancestry test results, people of non-African descent derive 1 ...

Learn how these Neanderthal findings shaped what we know about Neanderthals and how our ancient human past is intertwined.

Neanderthals, who were living in Europe and Asia, had large noses, strong double-arched brow ridge and relatively short and stocky bodies. Meanwhile, modern humans (Homo sapiens) evolved in Africa ...

Where Did Neanderthals First Appear? The exact location where Neanderthals first originated is hard to pinpoint, but fossil evidence suggests they were most prevalent in Western Europe. DNA analysis ...

Ancient genomes reveal a narrow time window for Neanderthal and human interbreeding, raising new questions about their shared history.

The major difference between Cro-Magnon and Neanderthal indicates that Neanderthals were outcompeted by the former.

“We know that Ranis and Zlatý kůň individuals also overlapped in time with Neanderthals in Europe, but they only carry Neanderthal ancestry that is also common to all people outside of Africa ...

Modern humans emerged in Africa hundreds of thousands of years ago and eventually spread to Europe, Asia and beyond. Somewhere along the way, they met and mated with Neanderthals, leaving a ...