There’s a growing appreciation among anthropologists that Neanderthals were more similar to modern humans than we previously ...

A detailed analysis of the best-preserved Neanderthal infant skeleton ever found suggests that our ancient relatives grew ...

Long before genetic testing and genome browsers, a small child was laid to rest in a shallow grave on the slopes of Mount Carmel, in what is now Israel. Today that youngster, known as Skhūl, is at the ...

Yet a detailed analysis of the remains of a Neanderthal baby shows that from a very young age, they were already different, ...

Africa has long been known as the cradle of humanity. Fossils, tools and genetics all point there. Yet the deeper story of how the first modern humans lived, moved and mixed has stayed blurry. Too ...

The gap between genetics and archaeology leaves us with an unclear picture of where the Neanderthals originated. Columnist ...