In all likelihood, the Neanderthals had flat feet. But it was not a defect at all. Instead, it was the consequence of a precise functional strategy to reduce impact stress under heavy loads and ...

Learn why Neanderthals were likely stronger than us, and that they likely weren't brutes.

Neanderthals and Homo sapiens followed distinct evolutionary lines, yet evidence suggests they interbred and had viable ...

In one case, 75,000-year-old bones reveal what may be the earliest identifiable victim of death by wooden spear.

Amid the daunting saga that is human evolution, the Neanderthals, so recent and closely studied, are in many ways the ...

Around 35,000 years ago, Neanderthals were disappearing as a distinct population after nearly 400,000 years on Earth.

Introduction: Why start a 'World History' class from the birth of the universe 13.8 billion years ago?This first lesson of ...

When you hear the word "Neanderthal," do you picture a "primitive man" who is hairy, carries a club, and grunts? In fact, that image has been significantly rewritten by research over the past 20 years ...

In Neanderthals Among Us, the historian traces shifting perceptions of the prehistoric human relative. What drew you to ...

Scientists say the scarcity of Neanderthal DNA on the X chromosome may reflect who mated with whom, not harmful gene variants ...

Researchers have reconstructed the appearance of one of the oldest known members of the Homo sapiens species, who lived about ...

Nearly half a million years ago, long before Homo sapiens walked the Earth, early hominins on a riverbank in Zambia did something scientists thought impossible for their time: they built a structure ...