Ancient linkups may have happened more frequently between female humans and male Neanderthals, according to an new genetic ...

A digital analysis of the perfectly preserved nose bones on a bizarre-looking Neanderthal skull reveals that a long-standing theory about Neanderthal noses doesn't pass the sniff test. The skull comes ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The cranium of a child discovered at the Skhul Cave site looked like that of a Homo sapiens skull. - Tel Aviv University In a ...

A single Neanderthal skeleton pulled from a cave in the Rhône Valley has opened a window onto a branch of our cousins that split off early and then stayed apart. The newly sequenced genome reveals a ...

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Modern human faces are surprisingly delicate compared with the jutting jaws and broad noses of our closest extinct cousins. The contrast is not just cosmetic, it reflects deep differences in growth, ...

Heat-reddened clay, fire-cracked stone, and fragments of pyrite mark where Neanderthals gathered around a campfire 400,000 years ago in what’s now Suffolk, England. Based on chemical analysis of the ...

Long before agriculture, humans were transforming Europe’s wild landscapes. Advanced simulations show that hunting and fire use by Neanderthals and Mesolithic hunter-gatherers reshaped forests and ...