More than a century ago, a distorted image of Neanderthals emerged. When a nearly complete skeleton was discovered in 1908 at La Chapelle-aux-Saints, France, its reconstruction led to lasting ...

For more than a century, the disappearance of Neanderthals has been framed as a story of extinction, a vanishing act that cleared the stage for Homo sapiens. A new wave of genetic and archaeological ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. When scientists sequenced the Neanderthal genome in 2010, they learned that Neanderthals ...