What happened to the Neanderthals? Our ancestral cousins went mysteriously extinct around 40,000 years ago, while humans did not. The demise of one and survival of the other continues to flummox ...

Researchers now believe Yunxian 2 represents an early form of Homo longi, a close relative of modern humans and Neanderthals. “From the very beginning, when we got the result, we thought it was ...