A complex picture of how Neanderthals died out, and the role that modern humans played in their disappearance, is emerging.

We are getting a clearer sense of where and how often Homo sapiens and Neanderthals interbred, and it turns out the behaviour ...

Did modern humans erase Neanderthals, or did our close cousins fade away for reasons that had little to do with us? A pair of major papers in Science and Nature on Dec. 12, 2024, sharpen that question ...

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Long before agriculture, humans were transforming Europe’s wild landscapes. Advanced simulations show that hunting and fire use by Neanderthals and Mesolithic hunter-gatherers reshaped forests and ...

The woolly mammoths came first — huge, shaggy proboscideans that evolved from an African ancestor and arrived in Europe around 3 million years ago. Next came the Neanderthals, a now-extinct species of ...

Hidden in a cave in northern Croatia, a fragment of bone from a woman that lived 52,000 years has revealed its secrets, suggesting that we’re even closer to our evolutionary ancestors than we thought.

What drove Neanderthals to extinction is one of the biggest mysteries in human history. A new book “The Naked Neanderthal” says humans were the main cause thanks to their superior weapons. The author, ...

Neanderthals have become unlikely test cases for the limits of generative AI. A new wave of research argues that when ...

Replica of drawing of lions painted in the Chauvet Cave. Art in the cave has been identified as created by early modern humans. (Courtesy photo) Neanderthals used thrusting spears to bring down tamer ...

For ages, anthropologists have puzzled over Neanderthal and human brains, since they were the same size. If each species had comparable brain power, why did humans dominate? A comparison of ...