Part of an adult Neandertal’s skeleton was found in a manner that suggests intentional burial The excavation of an adult Neandertal’s partial upper-body skeleton in Iraqi Kurdistan has revived a ...

The scientists initially focused on the DNA in the mitochondria which is small and particularly easy to retrieve. In 2008, they published the first fully decoded mitochondrial genome of a Neandertal.

Inspired by an earlier study that found associations between Neandertal DNA and disease risk, Janet Kelso at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany says her team got ...

Finding Neandertal ancestors in the human family tree was shocking enough when researchers announced it in 2010. Now the implications for modern-day people carrying surviving Neandertal DNA may prove ...

Analyses of anatomy, DNA and cultural remains have yielded tantalizing insights into the inner lives of our mysterious extinct cousins On a clear day in Gibraltar, looking out of Gorham's Cave, you ...

When Neandertals were first discovered nearly 170 years ago, the conceptual gap between their lineage and that of modern humans seemed vast. Initially scientists prejudicially believed that the ...

An international research team has sequenced the Neandertal genome, using pill-sized samples of bone powder from three Neandertal bones found in a cave in Croatia. An international research team has ...

If your image of a Neandertal is of a crude, uncaring, brute, think again. Teeth and jaw fossils found last year in southeastern France not only reinforce perceptions about how our Neandertal ...

Paleoanthropologists used to pray that they would unearth big troves of intact Neandertal skeletons and well-preserved artifacts that they could comb for clues to the origins of the human race. But ...

Recently, Vaesen, Dusseldorp, and Brandt (2021) published a study of Neandertal extinction theories. Noting over “a dozen serious hypotheses” about the enigmatic disappearance of our nearest cousins, ...

The researchers identified regions with Neandertal ancestry in over 300 individuals. They assessed sharing of segments, inferred gene flow, and looked at variation to identify candidates for positive ...