For over a century, we’ve told ourselves a comfortable evolutionary story about our species. Neanderthals were hanging around when our ancestors showed up, but they were brutish, simple cousins. We, ...

3D models of Homo sapiens (top two images) and Homo neanderthalensis (bottom two images) crania for visual comparison. The human model was created from DICOM files of an anonymized volunteer patient ...

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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A child’s skull discovered in Israel reveals humans and Neanderthals were mixing 100,000 years earlier than thought. (CREDIT: ...

The discovery rewrites the history of interbreeding between Homo sapiens and Neanderthals. In a new study published in the journal l’Anthropologie, scientists have identified the earliest-known ...

Neanderthals have become unlikely test cases for the limits of generative AI. A new wave of research argues that when ...

The shooting happened just after 8 p.m. Wednesday in the 2500 block of Loop 410 near Starcrest Drive and Perrin Beitel. The child, described in a recent study published in the peer-reviewed journal ...

Using a specially developed simulation model, researchers at the University of Cologne have traced and analysed the dynamics of possible encounters between Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans ...

In a new study published in the journal l'Anthropologie, scientists have identified the earliest-known example of human interbreeding with Neanderthals. It offers stunning new insight into the ancient ...

On the slopes of Mount Carmel in northern Israel, a small skull has changed the story of human history. Buried in Skhul Cave roughly 140,000 years ago, the remains of a five-year-old child show that ...