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

An international research team has identified the earliest fossil showing both Neanderthal and Homo sapiens traits. The skeleton, belonging to a five-year-old child found 90 years ago in Israel’s ...

In a rocky outcrop on Mount Carmel, in what is now Israel, a group of ancient humans buried their dead about 140,000 years ago. Scientists uncovered the site, called Skhul Cave, in 1928, and about ...

Deep in your muscles, an enzyme called AMPD1 helps turn chemical fuel into usable energy. When it does not work well, muscles tire faster. That matters because problems with AMPD1 are the most common ...

Ancestral Skills, Modern Traits Interestingly, these genetic traits align closely with Neanderthal behaviors. Archaeologists studying Neanderthal stone tool-making note that their Levallois technique ...

Of the 10 burials, each person possessed a different combination of H. sapiens and Neanderthal traits, Hershkovitz said. While the skull of the first child discovered was the only Skhul fossil ...