A geneticist affiliated with Harvard Medical School and the Broad Institute has proposed that Neanderthals did not evolve ...

“Before the last glacial period, Neanderthals had diverse maternal lineages. As ice sheets advanced and habitable territory shrank, survivors appear to have concentrated in a climate refugium in ...

A roughly 110,000-year-old male Neanderthal and a roughly 120,000-year-old Neanderthal recovered from the same cave in ...

Currently, there are several hypotheses surrounding the disappearance of Neanderthals. While they all have at least some scientific support, researchers can't agree on which—or which combination—is ...

Ever since the first Neanderthal bones were discovered in 1856, people have wondered about these ancient hominins. How are they different from us? How much are they like us? Did our ancestors get ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Neanderthals went extinct 40,000 years ago, and researchers are continuing to find clues about why.Mike Kemp/Getty Images ...

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Not every modern human has the same set of Neanderthal DNA, however; different people will, by chance, have inherited different fragments. But there are also some areas, termed “Neanderthal deserts,” ...