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

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

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

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

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 ...

New research reveals how genes inherited from Neanderthals and critical developmental markers like PITX2 influence tooth size, shedding light on human evolution and genetic diversity. Study: PITX2 ...

In a study of critical rearrangements of our chromosomes and select variations in our genes, the team looked at genome databases built from Neanderthal fossils, Denisovan fossils, and modern human ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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The researchers found substantial differences in teeth based on ethnicity, possibly due in part to the Neanderthal-derived gene, with participants of European descent having smaller teeth overall ...