The climate and early human societies were changing quickly during the fall of our closest evolutionary relative—and are big clues to the causes of their demise.

Standing proud in the Museum's Human Evolution gallery are two of the most scientifically accurate reconstructions that exist of a Neanderthal and early modern human. Find out how these lifelike ...

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The first-ever published research on Tinshemet Cave reveals that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens in the mid-Middle Paleolithic ...

When paleoanthropologists removed the bones from the dirt, they immediately noticed that the child's skeleton had a "mosaic" of Neanderthal and human features, suggesting it was a hybrid individual.

Facial reconstruction doesn’t only require ... with the insight that we Europeans share 2-4% DNA with the Neanderthals.” The ...

On the basis of the old man and the first relatively ... ideas now debunked as racist. This reconstruction set the scene for understanding Neanderthals for decades, and indicated how far modern ...

It seems Neanderthals were actually much more like us than we imagined. The journey begins in the Netherlands, where world-renowned reconstruction artists — and identical twin brothers — Adrie ...

(The originals are at the Musée de l'Homme in Paris.) The Neanderthal skull and jawbone (above, at left) belong to the so-called "Old Man" of La Chapelle-aux-Saints, a nearly complete skeleton ...

a species known in less progressive days as Neanderthal man. This contained stretches of DNA also found in Homo sapiens genomes—specifically, non-African ones. That suggested past interbreeding ...