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They have held our fascination ever since we first identified their remains. Today, thanks to new artifacts and technologies, findings about our closest relatives are coming thick and fast
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Today, thanks to new artifacts and technologies, findings about our closest relatives are coming thick and fast
An anthropologist imagines a world in which Neanderthals—and their relationships with the environment and one another—survived evolution.
A new study of the dental plaques of three Neanderthals reveals surprising facts about their lives, including what they ate, the diseases that ailed them and how they self-medicated (and smooched).
Genetic and anatomical differences between us and extinct species such as Neanderthals made us more similar to domesticated animal species.