Geneticists have a better understanding of how prehistoric pairings unfolded, with new research suggesting they were mostly ...

By now, it’s firmly established that modern humans and their Neanderthal relatives met and mated as our ancestors expanded ...

Perhaps human females found Neanderthal males to be high-status providers. Or perhaps Neanderthal society was “patrilocal” — meaning women moved to join the man’s family — while human society was the ...

New research on the inner ear morphology of Neanderthals and their ancestors challenges the widely accepted theory that Neanderthals originated after an evolutionary event that implied the loss of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Neanderthals have long been the subject of intense scientific debate. This is largely because we still lack clear answers to some ...

Deep inside a Spanish cave, an unusual accumulation has puzzled researchers for years. Carefully placed remains, repeated over an exceptionally long period, suggest that Neanderthals maintained a ...

Neanderthals have long been the subject of intense scientific debate. This is largely because we still lack clear answers to some of the big questions about their existence and supposed disappearance.

A human skull hung on a cave wall in northern Greece for more than 300,000 years. When a villager spotted it in 1960, cemented in place by mineral deposits, it launched a scientific mystery that would ...