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

We don't know when the last Neanderthal died, but many archaeologists think some of the last lineages lived in southern ...

Such a discovery could broaden our understanding of human evolution and the interactions between Homo sapiens and Neanderthals. However, at this stage, these revelations raise more questions than ...

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 ...

Neanderthals have had a tough time of it. Early humans played a role in their extinction, but the story didn’t end there.

New research examines how early humans evolved to eat carbohydrates by studying the duplication of a certain gene that helped ...

Braving the cold weather required Neanderthals to have robust bodies and to know how to make fire. But did they wear clothes?

We've known for some time now that Homo sapiens and Neanderthals, also known as archaic humans, interbred before Neanderthals went extinct around 40,000 years ago. In fact, in some ways ...

Some years ago, when the topic of the prehistory of the Armenian highlands came up, the first things that would come to mind ...