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 ...

A newly published study has proposed that Neanderthals did not go extinct primarily due to climate change or direct competition with Homo sapiens, but because of a fundamental difference in social ...

New research suggests a genetic dynamic that may have contributed to Neanderthals' extinction. Neanderthal-Museum, Mettmann CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons Did interbreeding between humans and ...

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 ...

Far from dim-witted cavemen, Neanderthals were just like us, living in large, familial groups that hunted together, ate together, and laughed together… Neanderthals - or Homo neanderthalensis, to give ...