For centuries, we’ve imagined Neanderthals as distant cousins — a separate species that vanished long ago. But thanks to ...

Study Showcases Certain Neanderthal Gene Variants Make an Individual More Susceptible to Autism Neanderthals may have vanished a long time ago, but they continue to startle scientists with discoveries ...

Recent research suggests that some of these genetic variants inherited from Neanderthals could be linked to autism spectrum ...

Human faces are famously flatter than those of other primates. Neanderthals, by contrast, had prominent, projecting midfaces ...

If you regularly experience headaches, dizziness, balance problems and blurred vision, our Neanderthal cousins could be to ...

Autism has at least four subtypes, an analysis of more than 5,000 children’s genes, traits and developmental trajectories has ...

A new DNA model suggests humans didn't reach Australia until 50,000 years ago, but archaeological data disagrees.

A similar study published last year had identified genetic traces of an encounter between the two groups around 250,000 years ago but the contribution of Homo sapiens DNA to Neanderthals around ...

Indeed, Thorin's genetic makeup was much closer to the genomes of early Neanderthals from more than 100,000 years ago, suggesting Thorin's community remained isolated from other Neanderthals for ...

Neanderthals and humans likely mixed and mingled during a narrow time frame 45,000 years ago. ... In a separate study, researchers tracked signs of Neanderthal in our genetic code over 50,000 years.

The 2010 discovery that early humans and Neanderthals once interbred was a scientific bombshell — the revelation of a genetic legacy that’s since been found to play a role in the lives of ...