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

University of Iowa researchers discovered human predecessors, previously thought to not be verbal, have parts of human DNA ...

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

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

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

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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 ...

Maternal DNA from Neanderthal teeth found in Stajnia Cave show Neanderthals moved across wide areas of Europe.

New interpretations suggest that Neanderthal and Sapiens interactions were shaped by biology and social structure, not simple ...

When the climate cooled, the population of Neanderthals shrank. Most that lived between 60,000 and 40,000 years ago were ...