Neanderthals clung onto existence in Eurasia until roughly 40,000 years ago, yet new research suggests that their numbers declined drastically around 70,000 years prior to their eventual extinction.

Neanderthals lost genetic diversity around 110,000 years ago. Researchers confirmed this by studying fossilized inner ears.

New research suggests a genetic variant in the NOVA1 protein may have played a key role in the emergence of human speech.

For years, scientists have known that Neanderthals and modern humans interbred, leaving behind genetic traces that still ...

The researchers suggest that Rh incompatibility could have contributed to the demise of the Neanderthal population. Blood group characteristics, although crucial for the proper functioning of the ...

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Scientists uncovered how ancient blood groups helped Homo sapiens as compared to Neanderthals in their survival and spread worldwide. Image:Le Moustier’s 1920s art reconstruction of Neanderthals.

Shumon T. Hussain. This shift was likely driven, in part, by the arrival of modern humans (Homo sapiens) in Europe and the displacement of the region’s last Neanderthals. “Humans further developed ...

The idea that Neanderthals and some ancestral populations of Homo sapiens interbred has gained traction over the past two decades. However, this theory is primarily supported by statistical approaches ...

How different are we from Neanderthals? The answer is “not as much as we used to think”. Or, to put it another way, the more we learn about this group of archaic humans, the more similarities ...