Fossils, stone tools and seashells in Turkey show that Neanderthals and the Homo sapiens who moved in later had the same ...

Learn how shells found in a Turkish cave may show Neanderthals and modern humans shared culture, tools, and symbolic habits.

New research into Upper Paleolithic fossils from western Eurasia suggests that hybridization between ancient human groups was not a rare side event, but a major force in human evolution. By comparing ...

For decades, scientists have known that most people of non-African ancestry carry a small amount of Neanderthal DNA, evidence ...

The earliest months of Neanderthal life have remained one of the least understood chapters of human evolution. Fossils from ...

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Ancient humans crossing the Bering Strait into the Americas carried more than tools and determination—they also carried a genetic legacy from Denisovans, an extinct human relative. A new study reveals ...

TEL AVIV, Israel — Modern humans and Neanderthals were interacting 100,000 years earlier than previously thought, according to researchers who used CT scans and 3D mapping to study the bones of a ...

Neanderthal toddlers grew faster than modern humans, probably because of the harsh environment they evolved in A new study of a Neanderthal toddler reveals that our closest evolutionary relatives' ...

Neanderthals were more susceptible to lead poisoning than humans — which helped us gain an advantage over our cousins, scientists say Humans and our ancestors have been exposed to lead for 2 million ...