Learn why Neanderthals were likely stronger than us, and that they likely weren't brutes.

A geneticist affiliated with Harvard Medical School and the Broad Institute has proposed that Neanderthals did not evolve independently from a separate archaic lineage but instead emerged after early ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Now a new cave excavation points to an even closer relationship between these groups, which appears to have lasted for many ...

We’re living through a golden age of archaeological discovery about our distant cousins, the Neanderthals. We’ve recently learned they were much more intelligent than we used to give them credit for, ...

Amid the daunting saga that is human evolution, the Neanderthals, so recent and closely studied, are in many ways the ...

In Neanderthals Among Us, the historian traces shifting perceptions of the prehistoric human relative. What drew you to ...

The Neanderthal DNA in East Asians today can be traced back to interactions between Neanderthals and early modern humans in Europe 45,000 years ago. The oldest known remains of modern humans in Europe ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rare Neanderthal infant fossils suggest prenatal growth was much like modern humans, while teeth reveal signs of early ...

Why are we so obsessed with a group of prehistoric humans who disappeared some 40,000 years ago? Ever since the discovery of ...

(CNN) — Early risers may have inherited genetic variants from Neanderthals that increased their odds of being morning rather than evening people, new research has found. While the human body clock is ...

Neanderthal babies have always been hard to study, mostly because their remains are so rare. That scarcity has left one of the oldest arguments in human origins unsettled: were Neanderthals following ...