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

This updated timeline for Neanderthal-modern human interbreeding "shifts and narrows the possible range of time when humans spread to places like present-day China and Australia," said NBC News.

Why did Neanderthals go extinct ... and narrows the possible range of time when humans spread to places like present-day China and Australia. It also clarifies the significance of fossilized ...

The reasons for the demise of the Neanderthals some 30 thousand years ago, only a few millennia after the first appearance of modern humans in Europe, remain controversial, and are a focus of ...

“And what’s really exciting is that even though there was this broader scope of traits that was considered, they point to effects of Neanderthal DNA on similar systems to what’s been seen previously.” ...

“If you have ebola, you die in a day or so, but these viruses have a different ... His research has shown that we can go back to the time of Neanderthals and still detect the viruses that were present ...

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 ...

But we should not be surprised when the natural world, past and present, doesn’t match up to our neat and simple schemes. But what about the archaeological evidence that is also commonly cited in ...

“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 ...

Close your eyes and picture a Neanderthal. You're probably imagining ... On the following page (and in miniature above), we present casts of two famous ancient skulls and associated jawbones ...

Because this event occurred after the Neanderthal admixture (as is evidenced by both signals being carried in present-day southeast Asian populations), it can be deduced that the former encounter ...