Perhaps human females found Neanderthal males to be high-status providers. Or perhaps Neanderthal society was “patrilocal” — meaning women moved to join the man’s family — while human society was the ...

Learn how sex-biased interbreeding between Neanderthals and modern humans explains why Neanderthal DNA is largely missing ...

Genomic analysis shows that interbreeding between female Neanderthals and human males was less common than the opposite ...

A new radiocarbon reassessment has established that the so-called Lapedo child from central Portugal was buried approximately ...

For years, geneticists have wrestled with a curious absence: many modern people carry Neanderthal DNA, yet large stretches of the human X chromosome are almost empty of it. A new study argues that ...

Neanderthals probably ate something most of us would find hard to swallow—meat that was left to rot, ferment, and fill up with maggots. According to a new study, this unappetizing menu choice could ...

Research focused on human remains found at the Troisième caverne of Goyet, a cave site in present-day Belgium that contains one of the largest known assemblages of Neanderthal bones in northern EU.

New analysis of Neanderthal bones from Belgium indicates targeted cannibalism of outsiders that may signal territorial conflict before their regional disappearance.

Across their modelling strategies, the authors place the theoretical upper limit of the modern human lifespan somewhere between 128 and 202 years. They also note the best-verified maximum recorded ...

Archaeologists in Spain have discovered an odd collection of animal bones that may point to evidence of an ancient ...