Though some might be surprised to see Neanderthal DNA in their ancestry test results, people of non-African descent derive 1 ...

University of California, Berkeley Assistant Professor’s Study Provides a New Timeline for Neanderthal Interbreeding with ...

Smithsonian paleoanthropologists explore how the year brought us closer to understanding ancient human relatives and origins ...

This interbreeding between species left an indelible mark that remains present in our current DNA. Between 50,500 and ...

The salivary amylase gene, known as AMY1, is already known to have helped us adapt to eating carbs. It encodes amylase, an ...

Several scientific studies confirm that both species coexisted for seven millennia and even reproduced among themselves.

An evolutionary biologist in China has built a case against the long-reigning 'out of Africa' theory, which suggests modern ...

The major difference between Cro-Magnon and Neanderthal indicates that Neanderthals were outcompeted by the former.

Archaeologists found 115,000-year-old human footprints where they shouldn't be—and they just might rewrite the history of ...

Researchers believe marine fossils were deliberately collected by Neanderthals, despite holding no practical value.

Biju Dharmapalan In an era increasingly defined by technological innovation, reading and writing-cornerstones of human ...

Primates have big brains, but so do elephants and whales. Elephants and whales, however, have much larger bodies that their ...