From ice-age hunters to our closest extinct relatives, this essential guide uncovers who the Neanderthals really were — and what they reveal about us.

Neanderthals may not only have feasted on rhinoceroses, they may also have used their exceptionally hard teeth as specialized ...

A cast of a Neanderthal skull at the Chemnitz State Museum of Archaeology in Germany. New research delves into when humans and Neanderthals interbred. Hendrik Schmidt / picture alliance via Getty ...

About 40,000 years ago, Neanderthals, who had lived for hundreds of thousands of years in the western part of the Eurasian continent, gave way to Homo sapiens, who had arrived from Africa. This ...

Neanderthals have become unlikely test cases for the limits of generative AI. A new wave of research argues that when chatbots and image generators try to recreate our ancient cousins, they reveal how ...

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After modern humans left Africa, they met and interbred with Neanderthals, resulting in around 2–3% Neanderthal DNA that can be found in the genomes of all people outside Africa today. However, little ...

NEW YORK -- Humans and Neanderthals cozied up from time to time when they lived in the same areas tens of thousands of years ago. But we don't know much about who got with whom, or why. A new genetic ...

When the first Neanderthal specimen was discovered in 1856 in Germany, scientists had never seen a human skull like it. It is long where ours is round, low where ours is high, heavy-browed where ours ...

“The Neanderthals’ extinction has been, according to modern biological anthropologists, greatly exaggerated.” (Geher et al., 2017) While my students and I, who comprise the New Paltz Evolutionary ...