A small blood gene difference made Neanderthal pregnancies with modern humans risky, possibly contributing to their disappearance.

It’s a somewhat uncomfortable reality that Homo sapiens interbred with their closest relatives, the "sister species" ...

When Homo sapiens and Neanderthals interbred, a genetic variation affecting red blood cells may have hindered reproduction in ...

Recent archaeological findings suggest that early modern humans arriving in Europe around 45,000 years ago may have been ...

Lead poisoning isn’t just an industrial-age problem. A new study reveals our ancestors, including Neanderthals, were exposed ...

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 ...

Researchers have virtually reconstructed a crushed and distorted 1 million-year-old human skull discovered in China. The newly restored cranium may have belonged to a relative of the mysterious ...

Outside Africa, populations of Neanderthals and H. sapiens mingled and interbred until Neanderthals went extinct about 40,000 years ago. Today, the genomes of most modern humans whose ancestors ...

"We found clear signals of episodic lead exposure in 73 percent of the specimens (71 percent for hominins Australopithecus, ...

A new study suggests that exposure to lead may have limited brain and language development in Neanderthals, but a gene ...

Ralph S. and Rose L. Solecki papers / Series 1: Shanidar Cave and Zawi Chemi Shanidar, Iraq / 1.4: Writings and Publications Funding for the partial processing of this collection was provided by the ...

(CNN) — Neanderthals had a voracious appetite for meat. They hunted big game and chowed down on woolly mammoth steak as they huddled around a fire. Or so thought many archaeologists who study the ...