It’s rare that ancient DNA from Neanderthals remains as intact as scientists would like. But on the lucky occasion that ...

A Neanderthal skull from Forbes' Quarry, Gibraltar. (AquilaGib/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0) Genetic deterioration may not ...

We’re living through a golden age of archaeological discovery about our distant cousins, the Neanderthals. We’ve recently ...

Genetic analysis of Neanderthals in north-western Europe reveals that this population was surprisingly genetically diverse, ...

We’ve learned so much about Neanderthals in the past year. We have to be living through some kind of Neanderthal knowledge ...

Language may feel like one of the most distinctly human things about you, but the genetic groundwork for it appears to be older than our own species. A new study from University of Iowa Health Care ...

An international study of infant remains from 50,000–75,000 years ago has provided new evidence about the developmental ...

Ancient Neanderthal DNA passed down for 40,000 years is now affecting how humans fight off modern viruses, making some ...

A fatal genetic incompatibility between Neanderthals and modern humans may have hastened the extinction of our ancient cousins, new research suggests. Researchers found that different versions of a ...

A new study published in Nature provides the most detailed picture to date of Neanderthal diversity in Western Europe shortly ...

Thin stretches of the human X chromosome look oddly empty when you scan for Neanderthal DNA. Geneticists even have a name for the gaps: "Neanderthal deserts." They sit there like blank tape in an ...