An international team of researchers has published a study that questions one of the most widespread theories about the ...

An Ice Age cave in Europe, strewn with mammoth furs and rock art of woolly rhinos, is the archetypal setting for a ...

Neanderthals vanished from the fossil record roughly 40,000 years ago, but traces of their DNA live on in most people alive today. Now a simple population equation, borrowed from the same mathematical ...

A new modeling study suggests that greater connectivity between groups may have given Homo sapiens the edge over Neanderthals. Why Neanderthals went extinct and Homo sapiens established a lasting ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Neanderthal skull from Forbes' Quarry, Gibraltar. (AquilaGib/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0) Genetic deterioration may not have ...

As we bask in the golden age of Neanderthal discoveries, where it seems like every week or month, scientists uncover another fact that radically changes what we thought we knew about our ancient ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Where they lived: Western Eurasia, from Wales to Siberia to modern-day Israel. What they ate: Meat, from elephants to mussels.

Modern humans exhibited higher growth rates and migrated more quickly than did Neanderthals, thus permitting them to populate and repopulate areas more efficiently. It is impossible to ascertain the ...

According to new research published in Quaternary Science Reviews, we might finally have a clearer idea of what killed neanderthals off. Apparently, they lacked the social skills to survive, proving ...

People worldwide carry DNA from a mysterious extinct human lineage that interbred with our ancestors long ago.