Now, a study published June 24 in the journal Nature suggests that inbreeding may not have been the primary driver of ...

Neanderthals: The First Europeans (Sorry, Sapiens!) Homo sapiens may be the reigning champion of modern humanity, but when it ...

“Before the last glacial period, Neanderthals had diverse maternal lineages. As ice sheets advanced and habitable territory shrank, survivors appear to have concentrated in a climate refugium in ...

A new way to use DNA to peer into the history of humanity is rewriting what experts know about our long-extinct cousins, the Neanderthals, US researchers said Monday. Previous research has suggested ...

Genetic analysis of Neanderthals in north-western Europe reveals that this population was surprisingly genetically diverse, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Gorodenkoff/iStock/Getty Images Plus) An international team of researchers has found that ...

We carry our evolutionary history in our genomes, and our history is a very mixed record. In recent years, a cluster of scientific studies of ancient DNA — specifically, DNA retrieved from Neanderthal ...

Your stereotypical leering barbarian chief has access to mass-produced food for his harem of abducted princesses and their children, whether it be access to farmland, a flock of livestock, and/or ...

A hole drilled into a 60,000-year-old molar suggests that Neanderthals practiced complex dental care long before modern humans. To test their theory that Neanderthals performed dentistry on this ...

Denies I accurately described viewpoint, follows up by expressing that viewpoint. Social skills are the most effective evolutionary strategy for social animals, which is the painfully obvious thing ...