New research posits that a genetic incompatibility between female offspring of humans and Neanderthals and their children ...
Recent research on human evolution suggests that the extinction of our Neanderthal cousins may have been hastened by ...
Two chunks of ocher unearthed at ancient rock shelters in Ukraine were actually Neanderthal crayons, according to a recent ...
Recent research is challenging the long-held view that Neanderthals were strictly carnivorous, revealing evidence of a more ...
A 45,000-year-old Neanderthal bone found in Crimea shows ancient humans traveled thousands of miles, linking Europe and ...
The most exciting is a roughly 4.5-centimeter-long, 1.2-centimeter-thick (1.8 and 0.5-inch) fragment of yellow ocher that was “fully-shaped into a crayon-like tool with a pointed morphology”, with ...
When Homo sapiens and Neanderthals interbred, a genetic variation affecting red blood cells may have hindered reproduction in ...
The ability to make art has often been considered a hallmark of our species. Over a century ago, prehistorians even had ...
Allan Bryant scans the sky as he watches over a minutes-old calf huddled under a tree line with its mother. Bryant, hoping ...
A small blood gene difference made Neanderthal pregnancies with modern humans risky, possibly contributing to their disappearance.
A fatal genetic incompatibility between Neanderthals and modern humans may have hastened the extinction of our ancient ...