It’s no secret that modern humans and Neanderthals interbred: most of the world’s population today has around 1 or 2 percent of Neanderthal DNA. Now a new study suggests that, for some of us, our ...

A study published in Science by Alexander Platt, Daniel N. Harris, and Sarah A. Tishkoff of the University of Pennsylvania has found that interbreeding between Neanderthals and Homo sapiens followed a ...

Seventy-five thousand years ago, someone hollowed out a gully by hand in the floor of Shanidar Cave, laid a woman's body in it leaning against the cave wall, folded her left hand beneath her head, and ...

The study of an assemblage of Neanderthal human bones discovered in the Troisième caverne of Goyet (Belgium) has brought to light selective cannibalistic behavior primarily targeting female adults and ...

While analyzing hundreds of Neanderthal bone fragments from a cave in Belgium, archaeologists discovered a horrifying secret: Six Neanderthals had been cannibalized 45,000 years ago, and the cannibals ...

Anthropologists have spent centuries piecing together the story of human history. For every fascinating detail they unearth, there are others that are rather, uh, unsavory. A new analysis of human ...

Live streaming newscasts, breaking news, weather & original, local programming. NEW YORK -- Humans and Neanderthals cozied up from time to time when they lived in the same areas tens of thousands of ...

A picture taken on March 26, 2018 shows a moulding of a Neanderthal man face displayed for the Neanderthal exhibition at the Musee de l’Homme in Paris – Copyright ...

NEW YORK — Humans and Neanderthals cozied up from time to time when they lived in the same areas tens of thousands of years ago. But we don't know much about who got with whom, or why. A new genetic ...