but suggest that the eye-catching specimens may have been gathered by Neanderthal children who found them entrancing. The ...

“They might have been collected by children. The collection of objects is characteristic of childhood, and remains of Neanderthal children were found in Prado Vargas,” it added. While ...

Paleoanthropologists generally agree that Neanderthals lived in groups of 10 to 15, counting children. That assessment is based on a few lines of evidence, including the limited remains at burial ...

The 13 Neanderthal individuals included five children and adolescents, with seven males and six females making up the total group. Want to get the biggest stories from PEOPLE every weekday?

Our closest cousins, the Neanderthals, excelled at making stone tools and hunting animals, and survived the rigors of multiple ice ages. So why did they disappear 27,000 years ago? While ...

Neanderthal DNA strengthens the immune system and regulates inflammation Denisovan genes help with altitude adaptation and oxygen use Paleogenetics reveals that human evolution is more complex ...

A Neanderthal skill (left) and a modern human skull (right). © Philipp Gunz, License: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 While closely related, Neanderthals and modern humans split ...

Precocious Neanderthal children grew up fast, say scientists at the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig and elsewhere. In a study of a 100,000-year-old jaw, growth lines in the teeth show that the ...

To investigate the archaic ancestry of the living human population, Akey and Vernot set to work searching for Neanderthal DNA in modern genomes. They developed a statistical approach to identify ...

Relatively little is known about Denisovans, an extinct group of human cousins that interacted with Neanderthals and our own species, Homo sapiens. "Denisovan fossils are very scarce," with only a ...

Neanderthals, our distant cousins, first appeared in Eurasia around 400,000 years ago. They’ve long been portrayed as sturdy, but brutish and dim-witted: the ultimate caveman. But ever since the ...