The climate and early human societies were changing quickly during the fall of our closest evolutionary relative—and are big ...

A study of the inner ear bones of Neanderthals shows a significant loss of diversity in their shape around 110,000 years ago, suggesting a genetic bottleneck that contributed to Neanderthals' decline.

but suggest that the eye-catching specimens may have been gathered by Neanderthal children who found them entrancing. The practice of collecting may seem like a pretty basic behavior, but it is in ...

and one for brown eyes from your father. But the Altai Neanderthals often had one version of each gene. As the study reports, that low diversity suggests they lived in small bands—probably ...

Neanderthals emerged around 250.000 years ago from European populations—referred to as "pre-Neanderthals"—which inhabited the Eurasian continent between 500.000 and 250.000 years ago. It was ...

The reasons for the demise of the Neanderthals some 30 thousand years ago, only a few millennia after the first appearance of modern humans in Europe, remain controversial, and are a focus of ...