Preeclampsia, a complication of pregnancy that involves high blood pressure, could have led to a decline in Neanderthals' ...

Neanderthals disappeared from the fossil record approximately 40,000 years ago. Their extinction was a gradual process over thousands of years, and theories as to why include competition with modern ...

For decades, Neanderthals have been cast as the supporting characters in our evolutionary story. They thrived across Ice Age Europe and Western Asia for hundreds of thousands of years until modern ...

For instance, a Neanderthal variant of a gene called H19 may have heightened their risk of hypertension, thus exacerbating ...

A complex picture of how Neanderthals died out, and the role that modern humans played in their disappearance, is emerging.

Neanderthal DNA is 99.7% identical to our own, and researchers claim that some humans might be carrying as much as 2% of the Neanderthal genome. Making things even weirder is that scientists recently ...

The French paleoanthropologist discusses his book ‘The Last Neanderthal,’ and provides clues about his latest discovery: ...

In life, this Neanderthal family from Northern Spain struggled as their species declined. In death, bone evidence shows they became food for another Neanderthal group. NOVA is available to stream on ...

Thousands of years ago, groups of ancient people made the dangerous journey across the icy land bridge of the Bering Strait into the Americas. They carried tools, traditions, and survival skills with ...

The ability to communicate symbolically is one of the hallmarks of our species, yet scientists still don’t know exactly when ...

In life, this Neanderthal family from Northern Spain struggled as their species declined. In death, bone evidence shows they became food for another Neanderthal group.