There’s a growing appreciation among anthropologists that Neanderthals were more similar to modern humans than we previously ...

The gap between genetics and archaeology leaves us with an unclear picture of where the Neanderthals originated. Columnist ...

Africa has long been known as the cradle of humanity. Fossils, tools and genetics all point there. Yet the deeper story of how the first modern humans lived, moved and mixed has stayed blurry. Too ...

The idea that modern humans inherited DNA from Neanderthal ancestors is one of the 21st century’s most celebrated discoveries ...