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

THE cavemen were just as intelligent as modern humans – and didn’t die out because of inferior brains, experts say. For years ...

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

The last Neanderthals lived in Western Europe but disappeared within a few thousand years of the arrival of modern humans.

Homo sapiens’ interconnected networks gave them a survival edge over more isolated Neanderthals amid environmental changes.

If you look at a Neanderthal skull and a Homo sapiens skull, they’re visibly different: Neanderthal skulls are lower and longer, whereas ours tend to be rounder. However, those differences probably ...

They're regularly depicted as primitive and brutish - but Neanderthals were just as smart as humans, according to a study.

We appear to have more in common with our Neanderthal cousins than outward appearances would suggest. New research published ...

Neanderthals' brains were not the reason behind their extinction, suggests a shocking new study. Scientists believed that ...

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

A new study suggests Neanderthals didn’t go extinct simply because of climate change or competition with Homo sapiens. Instead, the key difference may have been social connectivity—Homo sapiens formed ...