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 ...

(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 ...

“[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 ...

Neanderthals existed in Europe and Asia from approximately 400,000 to 40,000 years ago, sharing their time with early modern humans for thousands of years. Neanderthals had sturdy bodies ...

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 ...

Modern-day humans can have up to 4% DNA in their ... There, they encountered the Neanderthals, our now-extinct relatives, and over centuries these groups mated and exchanged DNA.

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 ...

The Neanderthal Y chromosome is much more closely related to the Y of modern humans than to the Y of Denisovans, another archaic hominin that lived in Eurasia at the same time as Neanderthals, ...