We’re living through a golden age of archaeological discovery about our distant cousins, the Neanderthals. We’ve recently learned they were much more intelligent than we used to give them credit for, ...

Neanderthal babies have always been hard to study, mostly because their remains are so rare. That scarcity has left one of ...

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Neanderthals disappeared around 40,000 years ago, and one explanation given for their disappearance is that their brains were different from those of early modern humans (Homo sapiens), who invaded ...

In contrast to those who resided in Siberia, Neanderthals who lived in what's now Belgium and France shortly before the ...

“Before the last glacial period, Neanderthals had diverse maternal lineages. As ice sheets advanced and habitable territory shrank, survivors appear to have concentrated in a climate refugium in ...

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A late Neanderthal group in Belgium and France stayed genetically healthy, with no inbreeding signs, just before vanishing.

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 ...