A new study supports the idea that Neanderthals likely went extinct because of how they lived — in isolation. The early human ...

Archaeologists have long known that humans and Neanderthals interbred, but where this took place has been hard to pinpoint. A ...

Neanderthal remains recently discovered in a cave in France support well-known theory of why the Neanderthals became extinct, researchers behind a new study say.

This discovery adds an important piece to the puzzle of Neanderthal history. Previous studies of Neanderthals in more remote ...

Since the discovery of Neanderthals nearly two centuries ago, paleoanthropologists have grappled with an evolutionary mystery ...

A new study published in Genome Biology and Evolution found links between the DNA of ancient hominids called Neanderthals and ...

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Despite its proximity to other groups of Neanderthals and the era’s modern humans, the lineage of the specimen, dubbed ...

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Sharing the name of a legendary dwarf in J. R. R. Tolkien's classic fantasy novel "The Hobbit," a Neanderthal now known as ...

Neanderthal remains found in France support the theory that their isolated, antisocial lifestyle and inbreeding contributed ...

and the discovery supports the hypothesis that the Neanderthals may have gone extinct because of their antisocial lifestyle. “When we look at these genomes from Neanderthals, we see that they ...