Neanderthals vanished from the fossil record roughly 40,000 years ago, but traces of their DNA live on in most people alive today. Now a simple population equation, borrowed from the same mathematical ...

The extinction of Neanderthals, our closest extinct human relatives, has long been a subject of intrigue and speculation. A groundbreaking study published in 2023 has shed new light on this mystery, ...

Homo sapiens’ interconnected networks gave them a survival edge over more isolated Neanderthals amid environmental changes.

Figure 1: Computer simulations of population density of Neanderthals (left) and Homo sapiens (right) 43,000 years ago (upper) and 38,000 years ago (lower). Orange (green) circles indicate ...

We now know that Neanderthals both had the knowledge to identify a tooth infection and the fine motor skills to drill out the ...

The mysterious disappearance of our Neanderthal cousins may have been related to preeclampsia, a life-threatening complication of pregnancy and/or the postpartum period, doctors propose in a new study ...

Modern humans exhibited higher growth rates and migrated more quickly than did Neanderthals, thus permitting them to populate and repopulate areas more efficiently. It is impossible to ascertain the ...

Before Neanderthals went extinct, they experienced a major upheaval that resulted in just one of their genetic lineages surviving in Europe and then expanding across the continent, a new study shows.

The molar showed that the Neanderthal who underwent the dental procedure was an adult, though the researchers do not know the ...

Neanderthal intelligence may have been similar to modern humans, with research showing minimal cognitive differences between the groups.