Neanderthals may have been far more like us than once believed. A new review of genetic, archaeological, and fossil evidence ...

Researchers examining the brains of living people found that they differed more substantially than Neanderthals' brains differed from modern humans', calling into question the reason our evolutionary ...

Neanderthals used sophisticated techniques with a stone drill to treat a painful dental cavity, according to new research.

Up to 94% of Neanderthals suffered at least one traumatic injury in their lifetime. How did their healthcare keep up?

A new study has revealed new insights into the mating patterns and preferences of early humans. The study, published in the journal Science on Feb. 26, found that when Neanderthals and early humans ...

For decades, Neanderthals were thought to be our less sophisticated cousins who communicated through basic sounds and simple ...

(CNN) — The 2010 discovery that early humans and Neanderthals once encountered one another and had babies was a scientific bombshell that electrified the field of human origins. Now, geneticists at ...

In this new series, Human, paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi reveals our incredible story across 300,000 years of human ...