Going by the headlines, the matter seems to be settled. El País announces that Neanderthal men "chose" sapiens women. Science ...

A cave in Belgium has revealed unsettling evidence that Neandertals selectively cannibalized outsiders, focusing on women and children. The victims weren’t from the local group and appear to have been ...

The first-ever published research on Tinshemet Cave reveals that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens in the mid-Middle Paleolithic ...

Further analysis of the genetic similarity showed that Neanderthals in the Altai region likely lived in groups of fewer than ...

For tens of thousands of years, two species — Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans — shared vast landscapes.

Neanderthal remains were first described in 1864, and scientific interpretations of their behavior and appearance have ...

The more we learn about Neanderthals, the more we realize that they were just like us. For instance, until fairly recently, ...

Scientists reveal the genetic mutation that forever changed the final chapter of the Neanderthals' history in Europe.

DNA study reveals Neanderthals who lived 10,000 years apart in Siberia were closely related, offering new insight into their ...

Painting of a straight-tusked elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus) during the early temperate period of the Eemian interglacial, ...

Most people have some amount of Neanderthal DNA from the extinct cousins of modern humans who lived in Europe and Asia until about 40,000 years ago. New research on available Neanderthal genetic ...

A fingerprint left by a Neanderthal on a rock 43,000 years ago could be the oldest known figurative representation of a human face, scientists have suggested. The discovery of the pebble marked in ...