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

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

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

New research suggests Neanderthals’ extinction was driven less by climate or intelligence gaps and more by weaker social connectivity compared to Homo sapiens. Using digital ecology models, scientists ...

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 ...

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, ...

In a first-of-its-kind finding, researchers at University of Iowa Health Care discovered that specific genetic sequences have ...