High in the Caucasus Mountains, buried beneath the cold floor of a limestone cave, archaeologists have found something small, ...

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 ...

Despite its proximity to other groups of Neanderthals and the era’s modern humans, the lineage of the specimen, dubbed ...

After the 2013 discovery that Neanderthals interbred with the ancestors of modern Europeans, says Janet Kelso of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, “one of the questions that came ...

Neanderthal DNA makes up approximately 2 percent of the genomes of present-day people of non-African descent (researchers believe that Neanderthals intermingled with modern humans after they emerged ...

A new study suggests Neanderthals could not adapt to a period of increased radiation as well as early modern humans did. Jakub Hałun via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0 One of the most ...