Human origins expert Professor Chris Stringer discusses what this Neanderthal inheritance may have meant for the early modern humans who migrated out of Africa, and what it means for us today.

or to the influence of modern humans on Neanderthal behaviour.' The Spanish cave art indicates that Neanderthals were in fact capable of symbolic or artistic expression. Prof Stringer adds, 'They ...

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 ...

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

In this feature, compare the skulls and jawbones of a Neanderthal and an early modern human and see if you can ferret out the many anatomical dissimiliarities that paleoanthropologists use to ...

(Kristina Thomsen/Creative Commons via Courthouse News) (CN) — The oldest known Neanderthal engravings in the world have been found on the walls of a cave in Central France, researchers said on ...

They created tools, art, and even practiced burial ... challenges shape who remains on Earth today. For modern-day humans, reflecting on Neanderthal resilience and the dynamics that sealed their ...

“[This study] is looking at a huge cohort and at a different set of traits than have been directly analyzed before, many of which are nonmedical,” says evolutionary and computational geneticist Tony ...

Even people today have Neanderthal genes. The study is a groundbreaking moment in prehistoric archaeology that’s been gaining momentum in recent years: that the modern-day human might have been ...

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 ...