Research shows some African populations have almost no Neanderthal DNA, while those from European or Asian backgrounds have 1 ...

The genome of a Neanderthal named Thorin suggested he was part of an unknown lineage. He and his community stayed isolated ...

Despite its proximity to other groups of Neanderthals and the era’s modern humans, the lineage of the specimen, dubbed ...

We don't know when the last Neanderthal died, but many archaeologists think some of the last lineages lived in southern ...

They did interbreed, which left traces of Neanderthal DNA in our genome. Discover More Amazing Facts About Human Origins: A version of this story was published in 2013; it has been updated for 2024.

Braving the cold weather required Neanderthals to have robust bodies and to know how to make fire. But did they wear clothes?

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The Neanderthal was unearthed at a cave known as "Grotte Mandrin" in southern France's Rhône Valley. The 2015 find has been reported in scientific literature for the first time, in a study ...

A new study supports a growing theory that the Neanderthals' downfall was not due to environmental changes or disease but their antisocial lifestyle.

Using DNA extracted from some roughly 45,000-year-old bones, scientists have found a new Neanderthal lineage that likely did not have a lot of interaction with others from its species. The remains ...

Neanderthals created certain types of tools, named Mousterian after a Neanderthal site in France. This type of tool was invented 160,000 years ago and largely disappeared by 40,000 years ago ...

We don't know when the last Neanderthal died, but many archaeologists think some of the last lineages lived in southern Iberia. Neanderthals once roamed Eurasia, but they disappeared around the ...