Less good is the fact that Neanderthal DNA can leave individuals predisposed to developing skin lesions called keratoses, ...

Modern humans can be recognized by their smaller facial structure when compared with Neanderthals and other hominin ancestors ...

also employed genomic analysis of ancient and present-day humans to arrive a similar conclusion: The vast majority of Neanderthal DNA in modern humans comes from one period of gene flow that ...

Researchers from the University of Washington excavating a site in China have found Neanderthal tools dating back almost ...

An early human species – the Denisovans – who went extinct 25,000 years ago – lived across more of the world than was thought ...

When they lived: 400,000 to 34,000 years ago Where they lived: Western Eurasia, from Wales to Siberia to modern-day Israel. What they ate: Meat, from elephants to mussels.Some also ate mushrooms ...

A Neanderthal skill (left) and a modern human skull (right). © Philipp Gunz, License: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 While closely related, Neanderthals and modern humans split ...

The reasons for the demise of the Neanderthals some 30 thousand years ago, only a few millennia after the first appearance of modern humans in Europe, remain controversial, and are a focus of ...

present-day humans exhibit significantly higher levels of bone resorption." The new research showed that both chimpanzees and Neanderthals had larger, faster-growing faces, while modern humans ...