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Discover the latest news, features and articles about who Neanderthals were, whether they mated with modern humans and when ...

AI recreates Neanderthals with ancient stereotypes and revives scientific errors of the past in its current digital images.

A growing body of genetic evidence suggests that Neanderthals and Denisovans carried many of the same regulatory gene networks linked to language and vocal anatomy in modern humans, challenging the ...

Preeclampsia, a complication of pregnancy that involves high blood pressure, could have led to a decline in Neanderthals' ...

The French paleoanthropologist discusses his book ‘The Last Neanderthal,’ and provides clues about his latest discovery: ...

New research suggests pregnancy complications, including preeclampsia, may have played a key role in the extinction of the Neanderthal species. Neanderthals, our closest ancient relatives, vanished ...

For instance, a Neanderthal variant of a gene called H19 may have heightened their risk of hypertension, thus exacerbating the symptoms of preeclampsia. Other Neanderthal genes that regulate ...

Humans are the only creatures on Earth whose lower jaw ends in a distinct bony knob, a true chin that juts forward from the rest of the mandible. Fossils show that even our closest extinct relatives, ...

Neanderthals purposefully collected and positioned horned and antlered animal skulls in a cave in what is now Spain, suggesting that these extinct human relatives had complex cultural practices over ...