Today, sequencing machines can decode up to a hundred million times more DNA than their early predecessors. Where the first ...

This innovative approach combines climate data, archaeological evidence, and population dynamics to simulate how Neanderthals moved across the landscape. The model reveals that by the time ...

Using a specially developed simulation model, researchers at the University of Cologne have traced and analyzed the dynamics ...

Evidence uncovered in a field in Suffolk, England indicates that ancient humans intentionally harnessed fire more than ...

Archaeologists have found the earliest evidence yet of fire technology — and it was created by Neanderthals in England more than 400,000 years ago.

Modern humans have a small amount of Neanderthal DNA, and those genes still impact our health today. Scientists think they've figured out when the two groups started interbreeding and swapping DNA.

Braving the cold weather in Northern Europe required Neanderthals to have robust bodies and a facility for making fire. But did they wear clothes? Indirect evidence suggests that Neanderthals living ...

The only living evidence of Neanderthals today is in the genomes of human beings. Scientists approximate that between one and five percent of modern European and Asian genomes contain Neanderthal DNA ...

A study shows Neanderthals made first fire in Britain 400,000 years ago, pushing back the timeline of controlled fire use by ...

Archaeological evidence makes a compelling case for Neanderthal-created fires 400,000 years ago in Suffolk, UK — plus, how ...

Learn more about how researchers can take evidence from the past to better shape our idea of what Neanderthals looked like.

It's not known exactly when humans and Neanderthals split off from their last common ancestor, but the estimated window is very wide, between 300,000 and 800,000 years ago. Now a new study has found ...