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 ...

“This population would later contribute about 80 percent of the genetic material of modern humans and also seems to have been the ancestral population from which Neanderthals and Denisovans diverged.” ...

Artwork on the schematical representation of the distribuition of morphological variation of the inner ear along time in Neanderthals. Credit: Alessandro Urciuoli, Institut Català de Paleop An ...

Human fossils illustrating the variation in brain (skulls) and body size (thigh bones) during the Pleistocene. Skulls: Left: Amud 1, Neanderthal, 55.000 years ago, ~1750 cm³ Middle: Cro Magnon, Homo ...

After four failed attempts, scientists have at last dated the skeleton of a possible human-Neanderthal hybrid found in Portugal more than two decades ago. The famous and mysterious Lapedo child lived ...

Life appearance reconstruction of a Neanderthal male at the Natural History Museum of London. Credit: Allan Henderson, under CC BY 2.0 New study challenges the theory that Neanderthals originated ...

These findings are likely linked to Neanderthal habitation. Hassanpour added that the discovery of painted buff ware and red ware from the Chalcolithic period (over 5,500 years ago) indicates the cave ...

Prior work suggested that during the mid-Middle Paleolithic (80,000 to 130,000 years ago), the southern Levant was home to at least three different groups of Homo: modern humans, Neanderthals and ...

Some movies are about history, but others deal with matters that predate history. There’s something fascinating about prehistoric times, and it gets even more intriguing when you bring those ...

The study, published yesterday (11 March), is revolutionary in that the findings include overwhelming evidence that Neanderthals and people in the region not only coexisted but also shared aspects ...

In central Israel, a key archaeological discovery connects two different species of human — Homo sapiens and Neanderthals ... Their tools, art, and other symbolic objects allude to significant ...

That led them to then compare those lactase genes from East Asians with genes from Neanderthals. They found that the genes in the East Asian samples likely came from the Neanderthals. This was ...