The idea that modern humans inherited DNA from Neanderthal ancestors is one of the 21st century’s most celebrated discoveries ...

Brain size can matter across the broad sweep of primate evolution but among humans isn't the best way to estimate ...

In 1857, the German anatomist Hermann Schaaffhausen analyzed a human fossil with "an extraordinary form" that he had never ...

Neanderthals are also continuing their own journey through history, and the latest scientific study conducted at Stajnia Cave ...

Fossils offer a detailed record of early human skulls but not the brains inside them. So researchers have been using genetic material taken from those fossils to search for clues about how the human ...

Neanderthals' brains were not the reason behind their extinction, suggests a shocking new study. Scientists believed that ...

A skull fragment discovered over fifty years ago on the banks of the Elbe River in Germany has finally yielded its secrets. Long considered by some researchers to be a rare Neanderthal-modern human ...

A series of new studies have transformed understanding of Neanderthal life, interactions with Homo sapiens, and human ...

New 3D analysis of a German skull clears up decades of confusion, placing this human firmly in the modern family tree.

A remarkable genetic breakthrough has uncovered what may be one of the clearest snapshots yet of a Neanderthal “community” ...

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An international study published in Current Biology presents the results of the analysis of ancient mitochondrial DNA ...