Model of an adult Neanderthal male in the Hall of Human Origins in the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History. Source: Wikimedia Commons by Tim Evanson (Flickr: http ...

Some 400,000 years ago, the earliest ancestors of man as we know him migrated out of Africa and into the land that would later become the snootiest place on earth: Western Europe. But that area was ...

The stereotypical image of a Neanderthal is that of a brutish, unintelligent and uncivilized caveman. However, a new study from researchers at the University of Wrocław in Poland is attempting to ...

Most human genomes harbor small fragments of Neanderthal DNA, the legacy of prehistoric hanky-panky between our ancestors and their hominid cousins. For the most part, that inheritance has been ...

Neanderthals could talk, but they likely couldn't use or understand metaphors, which compare two unlike things, research suggests. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...