Neanderthal intelligence may have been similar to modern humans, with research showing minimal cognitive differences between ...

Neanderthals disappeared around 40,000 years ago, and one explanation given for their disappearance is that their brains were ...

Scientists think Neanderthal children may have had faster growth rates because larger bodies tend to retain heat more ...

Neanderthal skull discovered in 1908 in France. (Luna04/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 3.0) In 1857, the German anatomist Hermann ...

Not every modern human has the same set of Neanderthal DNA, however; different people will, by chance, have inherited different fragments. But there are also some areas, termed “Neanderthal deserts,” ...

(CNN) — The 2010 discovery that early humans and Neanderthals once encountered one another and had babies was a scientific bombshell that electrified the field of human origins. Now, geneticists at ...

Specific genomic regions that seem to play a role in human language development evolved hundreds of thousands of years ago, ...

A rare infant skeleton shows Neanderthal infants grew faster than modern humans, with rapid brain and body development.

The story of Neanderthals has long been told in fragments, isolated bones, scattered tools, and DNA strands recovered from distant corners of Eurasia. Now, in a dimly lit cave in southern Poland, ...