For more than a century, Neanderthals have been cast as a vanished side branch of the human family tree, a brief encounter in ...

Well, not now – but a paper published in Genome Biology in 2006 concluded that after humans and chimpanzees cleaved from each ...

We are getting a clearer sense of where and how often Homo sapiens and Neanderthals interbred, and it turns out the behaviour ...

On the genetic level, we're not all that different from chimps. But those small differences in dna can have massive effects.

In a series of tea party-like experiments, Johns Hopkins University researchers demonstrate for the first time that apes can ...