Neanderthals may have been far more like us than once believed. A new review of genetic, archaeological, and fossil evidence ...

For decades, Neanderthals were thought to be our less sophisticated cousins who communicated through basic sounds and simple ...

Researchers examining the brains of living people found that they differed more substantially than Neanderthals' brains differed from modern humans', calling into question the reason our evolutionary ...

A new study has revealed new insights into the mating patterns and preferences of early humans. The study, published in the journal Science on Feb. 26, found that when Neanderthals and early humans ...

NEW YORK -- Humans and Neanderthals cozied up from time to time when they lived in the same areas tens of thousands of years ago. But we don't know much about who got with whom, or why. A new genetic ...

Neanderthals used sophisticated techniques with a stone drill to treat a painful dental cavity, according to new research.

Learn how ancient dental plaque, Neanderthal comparisons, and chitin-digestion genes show that Europeans rarely ate insects ...

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