Maternal DNA from Neanderthal teeth found in Stajnia Cave show Neanderthals moved across wide areas of Europe.

For years, researchers have puzzled over what ultimately led to the Neanderthals’ disappearance, but a compelling new study ...

A latest study utilizing advanced spatial modeling has revealed that neither climate change nor direct competition with early modern humans can fully explain the disappearance of Neanderthals from ...

The idea that modern humans inherited DNA from Neanderthal ancestors is one of the 21st century’s most celebrated discoveries in evolution. It may not be that simple.

A new study suggests Neanderthals didn’t go extinct simply because of climate change or competition with Homo sapiens. Instead, the key difference may have been social connectivity—Homo sapiens formed ...

A new genetic analysis of Neanderthal remains from Stajnia Cave offers an unusually detailed glimpse into a small group that ...

In the last decade, archaeologists have learned to read the genetic traces that ancient humans and Neanderthals left not only in bones, but in the dirt beneath their feet. By treating cave sediments ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 2015, a paleoanthropology team discovered jaw remains of a roughly 42,000-year-old Neanderthal in France. Over the next several ...

New interpretations suggest that Neanderthal and Sapiens interactions were shaped by biology and social structure, not simple ...

Understanding of Neanderthal prehistory in Europe is changing rapidly, thanks to several sets of remains discovered in Poland ...

A remarkable genetic breakthrough has uncovered what may be one of the clearest snapshots yet of a Neanderthal “community” ...

Neanderthals nearly vanished after a genetic bottleneck around 65,000 years ago, and a new study reveal swhere the last ...