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

MailOnline has asked leading paleoanthropologists to reveal what the hybrid children of Homo sapiens and Neanderthals would ...

Whole genome data from autistic individuals, their families and other participants suggests that certain Neanderthal variants could be associated with autism.

For nearly a century, scientists have been puzzling over fossils from a strange and robust-looking distant relative of early ...