Some 120,000 years ago, in the dry, rugged hills of the Levant, something extraordinary began to happen. Deep inside caves, ...

They were long-vanished members of our modern human tribe, and among the first Homo sapiens to enter Europe. There, these ...

The two species began burying their dead at roughly the same time and place. Now some archaeologists think competition may have played a role in burials.

Neanderthals have long been portrayed as dim-witted, brutish monsters who were genetically inferior to our direct ancestors, early modern humans. These ape-like creatures spoke in grunts ...

Neanderthals were humans' closest relatives. But something happened millennia ago that wiped them out. Today, there are 8.1 billion modern humans on Earth and 0 Neanderthals. "Why are they no ...

The earliest documented admixture happened “as soon as humans left Africa and met the Neanderthals”. (A mere decade ago, most scientists assumed we hadn’t mated with them.) Today’s ...

Neanderthals, and Homo sapiens. The Zeravshan River is part of the Inner Asian Mountain Corridor (IAMC). Already a hotspot ...

Over the years, researchers have investigated the remains of Neanderthals and evidence of Denisovans and modern humans in this region, "making the IAMC a location where the three human ...

Neanderthals are an extinct species of archaic humans who lived as hunter-gatherers in Europe and Western Asia around 400,000 years ago before disappearing around 30,000 years ago. When modern ...

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