This is the first three-dimensional restoration of a Neanderthal skull fossil. The eight-year-old boy was buried in a ritual fashion when he died more than 30,000 years ago.

New research has uncovered an extraordinary discovery that challenges our understanding of early human evolution. A young child, buried around 140,000 years ago at Skhul Cave in Israel, was found to ...

Neanderthal brain organoids reveal what makes us human. A new study details brain organoids grown with the Neanderthal variant of NOVA1, a gene that influences neurodevelopment and function.

A 2016 study by Vanderbilt University researchers linked one length of Neanderthal DNA to a higher risk of nicotine addiction. Getty Images. Here’s a look at the characteristics, from smoking to ...

Taken together, this work almost doubles the number of Neanderthal genomes that have been described. It also gives a tantalising glimpse into Neanderthal social lives.

Researchers at Vanderbilt University found that 16 variants associated with early rising in modern humans were found in genomes from a 120,000-year-old Neanderthal and a 52,000-year-old Neanderthal.

A series of morphing skulls, including Australopithecus afarensis, Australopithecus boisei (also known as Paranthropus boisei), Homo erectus, Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis) and modern humans ...

The genomes provide unprecedented insights into the social organization of Neanderthal communities. Genomic data for 13 Neanderthals. Ancient genomic data have been retrieved for 13 Neanderthals ...

The Neanderthal-like brain organoid made fewer neurons than did organoids with the human version of TKTL1. That suggests that when the TKTL1 gene mutated, our ancestors could produce extra neurons ...

Neanderthals are our closest extinct human relative; they lived between 130,000 and 40,000 years ago, primarily in Europe and parts of western Asia. We know what Neanderthals looked like: they had ...

Since the Neanderthal genome was first sequenced 15 years ago, researchers have worked to link modern humans to these archaic ancestors in a variety of ways.