We’re living through a golden age of archaeological discovery about our distant cousins, the Neanderthals. We’ve recently learned they were much more intelligent than we used to give them credit for, ...

Due to the accelerating pace of AI development, Neanderthal de-extinction may become technically possible within years.

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rare Neanderthal infant fossils suggest prenatal growth was much like modern humans, while teeth reveal signs of early ...

Benjamin holds a Master's degree in anthropology from University College London and has previously worked in the fields of psychedelic neuroscience and mental health. Benjamin holds a Master's degree ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Study finds ancient regulatory DNA tied to human language, with effects that predate the split from Neanderthals. (CREDIT: ...

During their first few years of life, Neanderthal children grew faster than Homo sapiens, likely to improve their chances of survival in the harsh environments the species inhabited. That’s the ...

Some modern humans might be taller and more muscular because of a Neanderthal-derived gene variant that affects the growth hormone pathway. Pixabay Neanderthals lived across Europe and Asia between ...

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CNN — If you were to greet a Neanderthal with a handshake, it might feel a little awkward. The digits of the Stone Age people, who went extinct about 40,000 years ago, were much chunkier than ours.

Neanderthal babies have always been hard to study, mostly because their remains are so rare. That scarcity has left one of the oldest arguments in human origins unsettled: were Neanderthals following ...