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

A study of the inner ear bones of Neanderthals shows a significant loss of diversity in their shape around 110,000 years ago, suggesting a genetic bottleneck that contributed to Neanderthals' decline.

The remains of the Lapedo Child, found in Portugal in 1998, showed signs of being both Neanderthal and human, as later confirmed by DNA. New techniques in radiocarbon dating allowed scientists to ...

but suggest that the eye-catching specimens may have been gathered by Neanderthal children who found them entrancing. The ...

and one for brown eyes from your father. But the Altai Neanderthals often had one version of each gene. As the study reports, that low diversity suggests they lived in small bands—probably ...

The reasons for the demise of the Neanderthals some 30 thousand years ago, only a few millennia after the first appearance of modern humans in Europe, remain controversial, and are a focus of ...