When the climate cooled, the population of Neanderthals shrank. Most that lived between 60,000 and 40,000 years ago were ...

What killed off the Neanderthals? Many theories have been floated, from climate change and disease to being outcompeted and ...

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

University of Iowa researchers discovered human predecessors, previously thought to not be verbal, have parts of human DNA ...

A new study suggests Neanderthals didn’t go extinct simply because of climate change or competition with Homo sapiens. Instead, the key difference may have been social connectivity—Homo sapiens formed ...

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

Specific genomic regions that seem to play a role in human language development evolved hundreds of thousands of years ago, ...

Neanderthals disappeared around 40,000 years ago, and one explanation given for their disappearance is that their brains were ...

Neanderthal skull discovered in 1908 in France. (Luna04/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 3.0) In 1857, the German anatomist Hermann ...

In a first-of-its-kind finding, researchers at University of Iowa Health Care discovered that specific genetic sequences have ...

A new study found that a pachyderm skeleton, dismissed for decades as unimportant, offers evidence of careful planning, ...