Smithsonian Magazine

Why Did Neanderthals Go Extinct? Inbreeding Probably Wasn’t to Blame for Their Demise in Northwestern Europe, a Study Suggests

In contrast to those who resided in Siberia, Neanderthals who lived in what's now Belgium and France shortly before the ...
New Scientist

Some of the last Neanderthals were surprisingly genetically diverse

Genetic analysis of Neanderthals in north-western Europe reveals that this population was surprisingly genetically diverse, ...

For decades, Neanderthals were thought to survive almost entirely on meat, but fossilised faeces and ancient bones tell a more complicated story

For decades, popular imagination has painted Neanderthals as pure carnivores, hulking hunters who survived almost entirely on ...

Neanderthals began life more like humans than scientists thought

Neanderthal babies have always been hard to study, mostly because their remains are so rare. That scarcity has left one of ...
Morning Overview on MSN

Neanderthals carried far more human DNA on their X chromosome than anyone expected

A new analysis of ancient DNA has found that Neanderthal genomes contain 62 percent more ancestry from anatomically modern ...
Earth.com

Neanderthal babies may have started life almost exactly like us

A rare Neanderthal fetus reveals that many traits distinguishing Neanderthals from modern humans likely developed only after birth.