Neanderthal intelligence may have been similar to modern humans, with research showing minimal cognitive differences between ...

A human skull (left) and a Neanderthal skull (right). (hairymuseummatt/DrMikeBaxter/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0) More ...

Homo sapiens’ interconnected networks gave them a survival edge over more isolated Neanderthals amid environmental changes.

For years, the standard story went like this: a single band of modern humans walked out of Africa roughly 60,000 years ago, ...

This new study underscores the significance of directly comparing the spatial behavior of Neanderthals and ''Homo sapiens'' within the same site, using consistent parameters, to minimize analytical ...

While Homo sapiens and Neanderthals lived near each other and likely interacted, they usually preferred living in slightly ...

When the climate cooled, the population of Neanderthals shrank. Most that lived between 60,000 and 40,000 years ago were ...

A new study suggests Neanderthals didn’t go extinct simply because of climate change or competition with Homo sapiens. Instead, the key difference may have been social connectivity—Homo sapiens formed ...

Did Neanderthals have family recipes? A new study suggests that two groups of Neanderthals living in the caves of Amud and Kebara in northern Israel butchered their food in strikingly different ways, ...

THE cavemen were just as intelligent as modern humans – and didn’t die out because of inferior brains, experts say. For years ...