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

A recent study compared features of Neanderthals' inner ears across space and time to extrapolate what happened to them tens of thousands of years ago.

Neanderthal fossils show a major population drop 110,000 years ago. Researchers link this to reduced genetic diversity.

Neanderthal genes seem to have hung around long after Neanderthals themselves did, as new scientific dating of the famed ...

An analysis of the semicircular canals in Neanderthal ears reveals evidence of a 'bottleneck' event, leading to a reduction ...

New study challenges the theory that Neanderthals originated after an evolutionary event that implied the loss of part of ...

Conde-Valverde, co-author of the study, said, "By including fossils from a wide geographical and temporal range, we were able to capture a comprehensive picture of Neanderthal evolution.

More than just mere cavemen, our Stone Age kin exhibited intelligence in surprising ways, making them more human than ...

Scientists have successfully dated the remains of the Lapedo Child, which possesses a "mosaic" of Human and Neanderthal ...

“By including fossils from a wide geographical and temporal range, we were able to capture a comprehensive picture of Neanderthal evolution. The reduction in diversity observed between the ...