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

The best-known Neanderthals lived between about 130,000 and 40,000 years ago, after which all physical evidence of them vanishes. Female Homo neanderthalensis skull discovered at Tabun Cave at Mount ...

In this feature, compare the skulls and jawbones of a Neanderthal and an early modern human and see if you can ferret out the many anatomical dissimiliarities that paleoanthropologists use to ...

From a flaky skull, found “as flat as a pizza” on a cave floor in northern Iraq, the face of a 75,000-year-old Neanderthal woman named “Shanidar Z” has been reconstructed. With her calm ...

Although Neanderthal people, who are thought to have died out 40,000 years ago, had skulls quite different from those of humans, the rebuilt face of this Neanderthal woman – thought to have been ...

The Neanderthal is also shown with body decoration ... These techniques include layering clay over a cast of a skull, fleshing out the face using a chart that details known tissue thicknesses at ...

Middle: 'Virtual fossil' of Last Common Ancestor Bottom: Neanderthal skull found in La Ferrassie, France, and dating from 53 to 66 thousand years ago. Now curated in the Musée de l'Homme in ...

Almost two centuries after the first Neanderthal was discovered, we are still learning a great deal about our ancient relatives. Neanderthals weren't the cave-dwelling, knuckle-dragging brutes ...

How do you tell? Our close evolutionary cousins, the Neanderthals, make look like us but there are distinct features in their skulls that set them apart. Palaeoanthropologist describes the main ...

The first Neanderthal skull discovered in modern times hid in a cave in Engis, Belgium until a local doctor pulled it out in 1829. In this video, archaeologist Michel Toussaint describes how the ...