The Neanderthals were our closest human relatives, and roamed the Earth hundreds of thousands of years ago. Although they are long extinct, their genes still live in us today. Neanderthals were ...

Not every modern human has the same set of Neanderthal DNA, however; different people will, by chance, have inherited different fragments. But there are also some areas, termed “Neanderthal deserts,” ...

Imagine Europe tens of thousands of years ago: dense forests, large herds of elephants, bison and aurochs—and small groups of people armed with fire and spears. A new study shows that these people ...

Neanderthals disappeared around 40,000 years ago, and one explanation given for their disappearance is that their brains were ...