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 ...

and this population was then replaced after that by other Neanderthal populations. And this literally rewrites all our books of history." Rob Hope Films Archaeologists discovered modern human ...

June 14, 2024 — Scientists have unraveled the ancestral history of one ... 2024 — A new documentary has recreated the face of a 75,000-year-old female Neanderthal whose flattened skull was ...

That overlap occurred during a bleak period in Neanderthal history that ended with their downfall — raising the question of whether modern humans were responsible for killing them off.

Braving the cold weather in Northern Europe required Neanderthals to have robust bodies and a facility for making fire. But did they wear clothes? Indirect evidence suggests that Neanderthals ...

In 2015, a paleoanthropology team discovered jaw remains of a roughly 42,000-year-old Neanderthal in France. Over the next several years, the team, lead by Ludovic Slimak, found more of the ...

Research shows some African populations have almost no Neanderthal DNA, while those from European or Asian backgrounds have 1 ...

Neanderthals once roamed Eurasia, but they disappeared around the time Homo sapiens reached Europe. One big question has stumped archaeologists for decades: Who were the last Neanderthals ...

In 2015, a paleoanthropology team discovered jaw remains of a roughly 42,000-year-old Neanderthal in France. Over the next several years, the team, lead by Ludovic Slimak, found more of the ...