Modern DNA sequencing is adding to our knowledge o...  ...ering the earth: Homo sapiens, Homo floresiensis, Neanderthals , and Denisovans -and possibly others. We know tha...  ...in a Russian cave in 2012 was the offspring of a Neanderthal mother and a Denisovan father.The fragment was id...  ...paring her DNA t...

Embed from Getty ImagesDutch sculptors Adrie and...  ...nowned for their sculptures of even older people - Neanderthals and other hominins. Their third display in the UK...  ...he sculptors' process, and get a preview of their Neanderthal recreations at The Guardian. Article contains som...  ...ecreations at The...

We have been learning a lot about Neanderthals in the past few years, particularly about how the...  ...knowledge came from sequencing the genes of four Neanderthals , only one of whom had DNA good enough to identify...  ...ations in the genome. But now there is another- a Neanderthal...

We once assumed that Neanderthals were just dumb cavemen because they looked so dif...  ...y tried to recreate the possible scenario for the Neanderthal 's discovery of tar, using the materials (birch ba...  ...ions, they were able to reproduce the kind of tar Neanderthals used....

Gene sequencing the last few years has yielded ama...  ...ns contain a small amount (1.5 to 2.1 percent) of Neanderthal DNA. Which means they interbred at some point. Ac...  ...have pinpointed different times in history where Neanderthal genes entered our pool, and different genes stuck...  ...s of a hundred yea...

Neanderthals were stylish cavemen and cavewomen, and their jew...  ...eagles were unearthed in a Croatian cave used by Neanderthals that were possibly worn as necklaces or bracelets...  ...roatia. There, archaeologists found more than 900 Neanderthal bones dating back to a relat...

Yet another reason why you should eat your veggies...  ...ological dig in Spain to add further support that Neanderthals weren't the purely meat-eating species as their m...  ...races of plant-derived esters, which suggest that Neanderthals had a "significant intake of plants." R...

Yeah, we meant you. (Though to be honest, I've lon...  ...ong suspected that some people are actually fully Neanderthals from the way they act.) DNA analysis studi...  ...in Nature and Science showed that humans are part Neanderthals . When modern humans move out of Africa int...  ...into Eurasia a...

A Neanderthal bone fragment shows a cancerous tumor. Image: Mon...  ...ver 100,000 years ago, but that doesn't mean that Neanderthals didn't get tumors: The discovery of...  ...The discovery of a fibrous dysplasia in a Neanderthal rib is the earliest known...

Sure it's easy to underestimate...  ...Sure it's easy to underestimate the Neanderthals as dumb cavemen - after all, they're ex...  ...ing cousins? For instance, were Neanderthals just dumb cavemen or were they actually...  ...omo sapiens ended up interbr...