A new study found Neanderthals had wider, sturdier heel bones, while modern footwear and sedentary life may have made our ...

A Neanderthal gene variant carried by many people in South Asia is linked to about 9.5 extra ounces of muscle in adults.

Neanderthals had more robust heel bones than we do, and while genetics probably accounted for much of this difference, modern ...

Finds from caves in Turkey and Israel hint that different types of humans exchanged ideas even as they remained biologically distinct. | Credit: Naoki Morimoto. Deep in a limestone cave on Turkey's ...

Neanderthal pelvis bones kept an older design, while the modern male pelvis became a shock absorber that returns energy at ...

Neanderthal Gene Linked to Enhanced Muscle Growth Study Links Ancient Variant to Height, Muscle Mass, and Jaw Traits in Modern Humans ...

Phys.org reports that a team of researchers led by Christoph Zollikofer and Marcia Ponce de León of the University of Zurich ...

Most people alive today possess a small amount of Neanderthal DNA—a biological relic from tens of thousands of years ago, when Homo sapiens coexisted with our closest evolutionary cousins. A new study ...

We all likely have a bit of Neanderthal in our DNA -- including Africans who had been thought to have no genetic link to our extinct human relative, a new study finds. Evidence that our early ...

Learn more about Human Ancestor Quickly Evolved Regions (HAQERs), genetic regulatory regions that may have shaped language skill in modern humans and Neanderthals. Language is one of the things that ...

Around 30,000 years ago, a group of Palaeolithic Homo sapiens in France butchered and ate a Neanderthal child before turning ...

Modern genomes preserve traces of ancient relatives that mixed with human ancestors in Africa and Eurasia.