More than just mere cavemen, our Stone Age kin exhibited intelligence in surprising ways, making them more human than ...

Neanderthals and Homo sapiens shared technology and customs in the Levant, shaping early human culture through cooperation.

which would have been used to fashion weapons such as spears. The findings show Neanderthals were both very intelligent and able to collaborate to produce complex tools. 4. Modern humans and ...

Villa, P. & Soriano, S. Hunting weapons of Neanderthals and early modern humans in South Africa: Similarities and differences. Journal of Anthropological Research 66, 5-38 (2010). Zilhao ...

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 ...

DNA studies suggest that Neanderthals underwent a steep decline in genetic diversity around 110,000 years ago—a forbidding omen of the species’ disappearance approximately 70,000 years later.

If your recent ancestry lies outside of Africa, you can safely assume that you carry some Neanderthal DNA. Human origins expert Professor Chris Stringer discusses what this Neanderthal inheritance may ...

Scientists have long agreed that early humans mated with Neanderthals, but a pair of recent studies have shed light on when exactly this DNA mixing occurred. Such a revelation could help ...