All non-African populations alive today carry between two and four percent Neanderthal DNA, which continues to shape our ...

Fossils offer a detailed record of early human skulls but not the brains inside them. So researchers have been using genetic material taken from those fossils to search for clues about how the human ...

Neanderthals died out some 30,000 years ago, but their genes live on within many of us. African people have very little Neanderthal DNA because their ancestors didn't make the trip through Eurasia, ...

When scientists sequenced the first Neanderthal genomes, they did not just resurrect a lost branch of the human family tree, they uncovered a living legacy inside most people alive today. A small but ...

A remarkable yellow crayon unearthed in Crimea, still sharp after more than 40,000 years, indicates that painting lines on objects was part of Neanderthal culture. This discovery is the firmest ...

Neanderthals used sophisticated techniques with a stone drill to treat a painful dental cavity, according to new research.

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