Researchers examining the brains of living people found that they differed more substantially than Neanderthals' brains differed from modern humans', calling into question the reason our evolutionary ...

When the first Neanderthal specimen was discovered in 1856 in Germany, scientists had never seen a human skull like it. It is long where ours is round, low where ours is high, heavy-browed where ours ...

They're often depicted as primitive and brutish – but Neanderthals were just as smart as humans, according to a study. For years, it has been suggested that a difference in head shape meant the ...

NEW YORK -- Humans and Neanderthals cozied up from time to time when they lived in the same areas tens of thousands of years ago. But we don't know much about who got with whom, or why. A new genetic ...

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Neanderthals used sophisticated techniques with a stone drill to treat a painful dental cavity, according to new research.

Most people today have a little Neanderthal DNA sprinkled through their genome. These genomic signals are the telltale signs that overlapping populations of ancient anatomically modern humans and ...