Neanderthal DNA is 99.7% identical to our own, and researchers claim that some humans might be carrying as much as 2% of the Neanderthal genome. Making things even weirder is that scientists recently ...

Preeclampsia, a complication of pregnancy that involves high blood pressure, could have led to a decline in Neanderthals' ...

For instance, a Neanderthal variant of a gene called H19 may have heightened their risk of hypertension, thus exacerbating ...

Neanderthals disappeared from the fossil record approximately 40,000 years ago. Their extinction was a gradual process over thousands of years, and theories as to why include competition with modern ...

The French paleoanthropologist discusses his book ‘The Last Neanderthal,’ and provides clues about his latest discovery: ...

Our AI & Tech Editor, Aayush Ailawadi speaks to Adrian Woolfson about genome synthesis, extinct species, and whether Neanderthals could realistically be brought back. Is extinction permanent - or are ...

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

The ability to communicate symbolically is one of the hallmarks of our species, yet scientists still don’t know exactly when ...

Across their modelling strategies, the authors place the theoretical upper limit of the modern human lifespan somewhere between 128 and 202 years. They also note the best-verified maximum recorded ...

In 1856, quarriers working in Germany’s Neander Valley discovered several mysterious fossils. The remains changed hands until being identified as the skullcap and femur bones of some ...

Two skulls from Yunxian, in northern China, aren’t ancestors of Denisovans after all; they’re actually the oldest known Homo ...

A new study explains why humans have chins while other primates do not. Researchers found that the chin likely formed as a ...