We’re living through a golden age of archaeological discovery about our distant cousins, the Neanderthals. We’ve recently ...

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When the first Neanderthal specimen was discovered in 1856 in Germany, scientists had never seen a human skull like it. It is long where ours is round, low where ours is high, heavy-browed where ours ...

A tiny set of ancient genetic “switches” may have played a surprisingly large role in making human language possible.

NEW YORK -- Humans and Neanderthals cozied up from time to time when they lived in the same areas tens of thousands of years ago. But we don't know much about who got with whom, or why. A new genetic ...

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Ancient Neanderthal DNA passed down for 40,000 years is now affecting how humans fight off modern viruses, making some ...

Most people today have a little Neanderthal DNA sprinkled through their genome. These genomic signals are the telltale signs that overlapping populations of ancient anatomically modern humans and ...