Neanderthals: Facts, news, features and articles about our extinct human relatives

Discover the latest news, features and articles about who Neanderthals were, whether they mated with modern humans and when ...

Genomes chart the history of Neanderthal-modern human interactions

By now, it’s firmly established that modern humans and their Neanderthal relatives met and mated as our ancestors expanded ...

Neanderthals' human blood mostly came from moms, study suggests

Long ago, Neanderthals and humans interbred. But among Neanderthals, their human blood came mostly from their female ...
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Could The Dark Region Of The Our Genome Explain Why Neanderthal Faces Looked Dramatically Different Than Modern Humans?

I didn't even know 'Dark Genomes' existed.
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Neanderthal men chose Homo sapiens women: Genetics reveals the sex life of our ancestors

A study shows that interbreeding between the two species occurred primarily in one direction, and the origin of this bias is ...
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Neanderthals at two neighboring caves butchered same prey in different ways, suggesting local food traditions

Did Neanderthals have family recipes? A new study suggests that two groups of Neanderthals living in the caves of Amud and Kebara in northern Israel butchered their food in strikingly different ...
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Neanderthals at two nearby caves butchered the same prey in different ways, suggesting local food traditions

A new study from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem reveals that Neanderthals living in two nearby caves in northern Israel—butchered their food in noticeably different ways. Despite using the ...
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Ludovic Slimak on Neanderthals: ‘It was suicide. Humans disappear when they no longer want to live because their values have collapsed’

The French paleoanthropologist discusses his book ‘The Last Neanderthal,’ and provides clues about his latest discovery: ...