Discover new clues about how our ancient relatives disappeared from time.

When Neanderthals and ancient modern humans interbred, the pairings were mostly between male Neanderthals and female humans. This finding helps explain why Neanderthal ancestry present in most humans ...

Around 2% of modern humans carry Neanderthal DNA, meaning we know early humans got super intimate with our now-extinct relatives. According to new research, when Neanderthals and humans did hit it off ...

A study incorporating new DNA data and archaeological evidence has shown that the last Neanderthals in Europe experienced a ...

(CNN) — The 2010 discovery that early humans and Neanderthals once encountered one another and had babies was a scientific bombshell that electrified the field of human origins. Now, geneticists at ...

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Researchers found that interbreeding between Neanderthals and early modern humans favoured male Neanderthals mating with female modern humans.

Plants have been part of our diet as long as meat has, with new evidence showing that Neanderthals, early Homo sapiens and even earlier Homo hominins were using and processing starches, grass seeds, ...

Humans are actually limited in how much protein they can metabolize for energy, meaning early humans really needed a more ...

New findings suggest humans mastered fire far earlier than believed, transforming diets, social life, and survival in ancient ...