A 6-year-old’s beach find turns out to be a 60,000-year-old Neanderthal hand axe, now displayed in Worthing Museum.

Learn how interbreeding with Neanderthals may have bolstered our immune systems.

Around 40,000 years ago, Neanderthals living in what we now call France crafted tool handles using a special sticky substance ...

Tens of thousands of years ago, an extraordinary chapter in the story of humanity unfolded. Two distinct branches of the ...

About 8,500 years ago, a 5'6" man with size 11 feet walked along the Severn Estuary at 2.6 miles per hour carrying a heavy load on his right shoulder. Archaeologists deduced all this from a series of ...

The salivary amylase gene, known as AMY1, is already known to have helped us adapt to eating carbs. It encodes amylase, an enzyme that breaks starches found in pasta and bread down to glucose—and may ...

2011). The question of what may have happened during these encounters and what the role of the early modern humans could have been in the Neanderthal extinction, have been the subject of intense ...

Cancel anytime. The interesting piece on potential sequencing of the Neanderthal genome and subsequent recreation of a specimen poses complex and worrisome ethical questions. ("Should AI be used ...

Much remains a mystery about the Neanderthals' demise roughly 40,000 years ago. But a DNA analysis of a Neanderthal known as Thorin, nicknamed after a dwarf in "The Hobbit" by J. R. R. Tolkien ...

In a study of critical rearrangements of our chromosomes and select variations in our genes, the team looked at genome ...

And their legacy persists — not just in the archaeological record, but in our very genes. Some modern-day people have 2 percent Neanderthal DNA, according to Prof. Chris Stringer, a leading human ...

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