A tiny portion of the human genome may have had a surprisingly large impact on our ability to develop language. New research ...

We’re living through a golden age of archaeological discovery about our distant cousins, the Neanderthals. We’ve recently ...

Ancient Neanderthal DNA passed down for 40,000 years is now affecting how humans fight off modern viruses, making some ...

Language may feel like one of the most distinctly human things about you, but the genetic groundwork for it appears to be older than our own species. A new study from University of Iowa Health Care ...

A tiny set of ancient genetic “switches” may have played a surprisingly large role in making human language possible.

An analysis of Neanderthal DNA has helped piece together the story of many millennia of hard times that finally led to the demise of our ancient human relatives. Faced with a cooling climate, their ...

LONDON (Reuters) - The world's oldest known cave paintings were made by Neanderthals, not modern humans, suggesting our extinct cousins were far from being uncultured brutes. A high-tech analysis of ...

One of the individuals with a crushed skull and other skeletal parts of an adult Neanderthal was taken from a shallow scoop grave covered with stones. This was the research team’s first meeting with ...