They drew with crayons, possibly fed on maggots and maybe even kissed us: Forty millenniums later, our ancient human cousins ...

Neanderthals have fascinated scientists since they were first discovered in the 19th century. Their long heads and low brow ...

A research team at the British Museum, led by Nick Ashton and Rob Davis, reports evidence that ancient humans could make and ...

These Neanderthal-derived markers represent just a small part of the overall genetic landscape influencing autism. Visual Processing and Brain Connectivity A particularly striking discovery involved ...

Every time you look in the mirror, you are seeing the legacy of an extinct cousin. A small but influential fraction of your ...

The discovery rewrites the history of interbreeding between Homo sapiens and Neanderthals. In a new study published in the journal l’Anthropologie, scientists have identified the earliest-known ...

(CNN) — In a rocky outcrop on Mount Carmel, in what is now Israel, a group of ancient humans buried their dead about 140,000 years ago. Scientists uncovered the site, called Skhul Cave, in 1928, and ...

Early human ancestors called the LRJ Group lived in Europe for 80 generations, intermingling with Neanderthals, before ...

While the skull of the first child discovered was the only Skhul fossil examined for the study, “all of them manifest what we call ‘mosaic morphology,’ in the sense that they have both Neanderthal and ...