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

The Fascination with Neanderthals Begins For many, the name Neanderthals conjures images of hairy, robust humans who walked ...

Chris Green is a member of the Holocaust Education Committee of the Quad Cities, a group dedicated to teaching people about the history of the Holocaust. Green says her inspiration is Eva Kor, a ...

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 ... bringing to life a 45,000-year-old human family." From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter ...

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

Our human evolution expert Professor Chris Stringer, who has been studying Neanderthals and Homo sapiens for about 50 years, tackles the big question of whether we belong to the same species. Everyone ...

“The results point to a mosaic pattern of Neanderthal extinction in Europe and provide a shorter time frame for the potential interaction of humans with Neanderthals,” said study author Ron Pinhasi, a ...

Our closest cousins, the Neanderthals, excelled at making stone tools and hunting animals, and survived the rigors of multiple ice ages. So why did they disappear 27,000 years ago? While ...

Genetic material recovered from 40,000-year-old human bones unearthed in Romania harbors about 6-9 percent Neanderthal DNA, the study reports. Some of this DNA was contained in three relatively large ...