We’re living through a golden age of archaeological discovery about our distant cousins, the Neanderthals. We’ve recently ...

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We’ve learned so much about Neanderthals in the past year. We have to be living through some kind of Neanderthal knowledge ...

An international study of infant remains from 50,000–75,000 years ago has provided new evidence about the developmental ...

The remains comprise in part the stapes — a bone of the middle ear found in humans and other mammals — of a Neanderthal child estimated to be no more than 2 years old at death. The study centred on ...

A tiny set of ancient genetic “switches” may have played a surprisingly large role in making human language possible.

NEW YORK -- Humans and Neanderthals cozied up from time to time when they lived in the same areas tens of thousands of years ago. But we don't know much about who got with whom, or why. A new genetic ...

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Ancient Neanderthal DNA passed down for 40,000 years is now affecting how humans fight off modern viruses, making some ...