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.

neanderthal skull reconstruction, La Ferrassie ... Beautiful close-up shot of the head of a cane with a skull head held by a Latin American man dressed as a tribal inside a cave with neon lights. Head ...

Reconstruction of the 10,000-year-old “Cheddar Man” from Britain ... pale skin through the mixture of populations. What about Neanderthals who occupied Europe for tens of thousands of years ...

A newly excavated cave in Israel holds burials and artifacts suggesting that multiple human species commingled and shared ...

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The first-ever published research out of Tinshemet Cave indicates the two human species regularly interacted and shared ...

A small team of computational and evolutionary biologists from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Zhongshan ...

Life appearance reconstruction of a Neanderthal male at the Natural History Museum of London. (Credit: Photo: Allan Henderson under CC BY 2.0) Ears are incredible things. They help us process sound ...

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 ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists have dated the skeleton of an ancient child that caused a stir when it was first discovered ...

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 ...