This week, a 125,000-year-old Neandertal “fat factory” reveals that they gorged on energy-packed bone grease, a new study has ...

An ochre dot in Spain may hold one of the oldest, most complete Neandertal fingerprints, hinting at symbolic behavior in our ancient relatives.

Neandertal DNA may affect the color of our skin and hair, how readily our blood clots, our propensity for heart disease, and how our cells respond to various environmental stressors such as radiation.

Perhaps, for Neandertals, love was about community. They showed signs of caring for community members who needed it—birthing mothers, the sick, the elderly. There is also evidence for caring for the ...

First Neandertal community In their new study, the researchers focused on the Neandertal remains in Chagyrskaya and Okladnikov Caves, which are within 100 kilometers of Denisova Cave.

Neandertal skeletons are described as robust: short, stocky, and built for heat retention. Neandertals continued to evolve and thrive mostly alone in Western Europe and Asia until they went ...

Though previous research has discussed many aspects of Neandertal behavior like cave painting, wearing clothes, and making fire, there was less known about their social structure. While the DNA found ...

While prior sequencing work for 15 Neandertal and Denisovan individuals had been completed, the study of the genes underlying blood groups hadn't been investigated.

The blood groups of three Neandertals one Denisovan have been determined by a Marseille-based team including a palaeoanthropologist, population geneticists, and haematologists. Their research ...

Last year, researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany showed that a major genetic risk factor for severe COVID-19 ...

Neandertal Examines Belonging and Identity With New "us" and "them" Fragrances: Joined by a complementing candle also housed in a flint-knapped-esque holder.

"Some Neandertal alleles have relatively high frequency in this population," Camp explains. "Because of that, this iPSC resource contains certain genes that are homozygous for Neandertal alleles ...