We’re living through a golden age of archaeological discovery about our distant cousins, the Neanderthals. We’ve recently ...

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Learn how scans of 50,000- to 75,000-year-old Neanderthal remains from Bavaria traced fetal growth and possible metabolic ...

The remains comprise in part the stapes — a bone of the middle ear found in humans and other mammals — of a Neanderthal child estimated to be no more than 2 years old at death. The study centred on ...

Ancient Neanderthal DNA passed down for 40,000 years is now affecting how humans fight off modern viruses, making some ...

A tiny set of ancient genetic “switches” may have played a surprisingly large role in making human language possible.

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A tiny portion of the human genome may have had a surprisingly large impact on our ability to develop language. New research ...

NEW YORK -- Humans and Neanderthals cozied up from time to time when they lived in the same areas tens of thousands of years ago. But we don't know much about who got with whom, or why. A new genetic ...