A recent study compared features of Neanderthals' inner ears across space and time to extrapolate what happened to them tens ...

Drastic climatic changes likely had profound impacts on the genetic and morphological variability of the Neanderthal lineage.

The climate and early human societies were changing quickly during the fall of our closest evolutionary relative—and are big ...

Ancient Humans Were Found to be Compassionate to Children With Down Syndrome as Hinted by Fossils The perception of ...

Neanderthals lost genetic diversity around 110,000 years ago. Researchers confirmed this by studying fossilized inner ears.

New research on the inner ear morphology of Neanderthals and their ancestors challenges the widely accepted theory that ...

The scientists identified the bottleneck by analyzing changes in the shape of the Neanderthal inner ear over time. When they analyzed the inner ears of Neanderthal skulls, they discovered that ...

Our closest cousins, the Neanderthals, excelled at making stone tools and hunting animals, and survived the rigors of multiple ice ages. So why did they disappear 27,000 years ago? While ...

Standing proud in the Museum's Human Evolution gallery are two of the most scientifically accurate reconstructions that exist of a Neanderthal and early modern human. Find out how these lifelike ...