Indirect evidence suggests that Neanderthals living in cold ... Although evidence of ancient clothing exists from later, ...

These include technological advances, such as 1) better clothing and shelter ... important differences have been found between Neanderthals and modern humans in their life history and demography ...

Human origins expert Professor Chris Stringer discusses what this Neanderthal inheritance may have meant for the early modern humans who migrated out of Africa, and what it means for us today.

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 ...

After the 2013 discovery that Neanderthals interbred with the ancestors of modern Europeans, says Janet Kelso of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, “one of the questions that came ...

The Neanderthal Y chromosome is much more closely related to the Y of modern humans than to the Y of Denisovans, another archaic hominin that lived in Eurasia at the same time as Neanderthals, ...

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.

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 ...

you find no difference between what people we call Neanderthals and the people whom we call modern humans in Africa were doing at the same time.” But the most amazing discovery is how their ...

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 ...

"Modern humans in South Africa are known to produce adhesives from around 100,000 years ago," Dr Dusseldorp told BBC News. "This is 100,000 years later than the earliest known Neanderthal find.