The reasons for the demise of the Neanderthals some 30 thousand years ago, only a few millennia after the first appearance of modern humans in Europe, remain controversial, and are a focus of ...

Around this time Neanderthal populations in Spain were ... the previous ice age and drove other lineages to expand into new territory. Hot on their heels were Homo sapiens. "These genetic ...

This is not surprising. Homo sapiens began in Africa but Neanderthals were Eurasian. Any miscegenation would have happened after sapiens left its homeland to embark on its conquest of the world.

Almost two centuries after the first Neanderthal was discovered, we are still learning a great deal about our ancient relatives. Neanderthals weren't the cave-dwelling, knuckle-dragging brutes ...

Human populations that left Africa evolved quickly whereas Neanderthals stayed the same, according to an analysis of blood group systems. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

Our closest cousins, the Neanderthals, excelled at making stone tools and hunting animals, and survived the rigors of multiple ice ages. So why did they disappear 27,000 years ago? While ...

Neanderthals, our distant cousins, first appeared in Eurasia around 400,000 years ago. They’ve long been portrayed as sturdy, but brutish and dim-witted: the ultimate caveman. But ever since the ...

A new study published in Scientific Reports finds that incompatibility between the blood groups of Neanderthals and modern humans may have contributed to the extinction of the Neanderthals.

The birch-tar handled tool made by Neanderthals 50,000 years ago Traces of ancient "glue" on a stone tool from 50,000 years ago points to complex thinking by Neanderthals, experts say. The glue ...

When modern humans journeyed out of Africa, a rapid evolution in their red blood cells may have helped them survive — but it may have also led to the eventual disappearance of Neanderthals ...