One of the great mysteries of human evolution is the intermediate step represented by the presence of Neanderthals for ...

AquilaGib (Stewart Finlayson, Gibraltar Museum) licenced under CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons The typical image of Neanderthals is of highly carnivorous, ice-age hunters and scavengers who ate ...

The remains this model is based on were found, in 1823, smeared with this naturally occurring iron oxide pigment and buried with periwinkle shells and fragments of ivory rods and rings. The ...

There has been some incredible research into the role this DNA plays in modern human neurodevelopment, so here's an overview ...

Over 200 visitors interacted with each other over themes of drug resistant tuberculosis, extra-pulmonary TB and developments ...

Neanderthals were consummate hunters of medium ... E. & Hublin, J. Dental remains from the Grotte du Renne at Arcy-sur-Cure (Yonne). Journal of Human Evolution 50, 485-508 (2006).

Ancestors or Relics? Neanderthals have long fascinated scientists and the general public alike. Are they our distant ...

How these Neanderthal genes became prominent in the human genome remains to be uncovered. Capellini speculates that the variants could have been beneficial in the past, and therefore, selective ...