But some Neanderthal DNA helped modern humans survive and reproduce, and thus it has lingered in our genomes. Nowadays, ...

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A collection of bones from Casablanca holds important new clues to the origins of modern humans and Neanderthals.

Investigations on various sites at Strait of Gibraltar revealed not only the presence of first-ever intercontinental rock art ...

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Here are 10 major Neanderthal findings from 2025 — and what they teach us about our own evolution. The hottest — but also ...

For decades, anthropologists lumped these ancient populations into a single species, Homo heidelbergensis, long believed to ...

Palaeolithic humans living on both sides of the Strait of Gibraltar were a creative bunch to say the least, and were ...

They drew with crayons, possibly fed on maggots and maybe even kissed us: Forty millenniums later, our ancient human cousins ...

A team of anthropologists recently examined a collection of fossil hominin jawbones, teeth, and vertebrae that belong to ...

Fossils unearthed in Morocco are the first from a little-understood period of human evolution and may be remains of a ...

S ome groups of European Neanderthals may have lost the ability to make fire during the colder periods of their existence. As ...