Neandertal babies had chests shaped like short, deep barrels and spines that curved inward more than those of humans, a build that until now was known only for Neandertal adults, researchers say.

Last March, as Texas and Mississippi lifted their coronavirus pandemic mask mandates against the advice of health officials, President Joe Biden accused the governors of those states of “Neandertal ...

Neandertal DNA recovered from cave mud reveals that these ancient humans spread across Eurasia in two different waves. Analysis of genetic material from three caves in two countries suggests an early ...

This press release is available in German, French, Spanish, Chinese and Japanese. An international research team has sequenced the Neandertal genome, using pill-sized samples of bone powder from three ...

Re-examination of a circa 100,000-year-old archaic early human skull found 35 years ago in Northern China has revealed the surprising presence of an inner-ear formation long thought to occur only in ...

The jutting midface of Neandertals seems to have evolved to help get large volumes of air into an active body that needed lots of oxygen. Neandertals had a distinct facial appearance: heavy brows, big ...

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 ...

Researchers have completed blood group analysis for three Neandertals and a single Denisovan. The team that completed the research is from the Anthropologie Bio-Culturelle, Droit, Éthique et Santé ...

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 ...

Darren Curnoe receives funding from the Australian Research Council. In a sort-of Ice Age version of Jurassic Park, Harvard University’s Professor George Church has suggested – to much media coverage ...

Frederick L. Coolidge, PhD and Karenleigh A. Overmann, DPhil are co-editors of the book, Squeezing Minds from Stones (2019) Source: Karenleigh A. Overmann Frederick L. Coolidge and Karenleigh A.

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 ...