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 ...

Explore the fascinating world of Neanderthals and their ability to survive in extreme conditions. New findings challenge ...

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

Standing proud in the Museum's Human Evolution gallery are two of the most scientifically accurate reconstructions that exist of a Neanderthal and early modern human. Find out how these lifelike ...

These diseases, which included adenovirus, herpesvirus, and papillomavirus, were preserved in the bones of Neanderthals. Life-long infections like these would have made it hard for archaic humans ...

But some commentators suggest that the extinct Neanderthals with their heavy brows and big noses ... Grouping living things in species allows biologists to study aspects of life ranging from our own ...

Neanderthals were consummate hunters of medium ... The Emergence of Culture: The Evolution of a Uniquely Human Way of Life. New York, NY: Springer, 2006. Chase, P. G. & Dibble, H.

it was concluded that early humans and Neanderthals reached their peak interbreeding period around 47,000 years ago. The height of this interbreeding was not "exceptional trysts but a way of life ...

Illustration of an encounter between a group of Neanderthals (black) and a group of modern humans (red, top row) with offspring showing recent Neanderthal ancestry (red, bottom row), imagined as a ...

Indeed important differences have been found between Neanderthals and modern humans in their life history and demography, including faster growth and possibly shorter life expectancy in ...

“The study expands our knowledge of the extent to which Neanderthals and Denisovans contributed functionally relevant genetic variation to modern humans,” Svante Pääbo, an evolutionary geneticist at ...