Last Updated: Thursday, January 30, 2014, 14:01
A new study suggests that DNA fossils hidden in modern human genome that help determine most people`s skin and hair, were picked up from Neanderthals through mating.
Last Updated: Thursday, December 26, 2013, 15:37
Researchers have found a new genetic clue that increased risk of developing Type 2 diabetes in Latin Americans.
Last Updated: Saturday, December 21, 2013, 14:26
A new study conducted on Neanderthal fossil unearthed in 1989 suggest that they had ability to speak like humans.
Last Updated: Tuesday, December 17, 2013, 10:53
A team of archaeologists have concluded that Neanderthals, forerunners to modern humans, buried their dead.
Last Updated: Thursday, December 5, 2013, 12:27
Researchers have been able to determine an almost complete mitochondrial genome sequence of a 400,000-year-old hominin from Sima de los Huesos, a unique cave site in Northern Spain.
Last Updated: Wednesday, December 4, 2013, 11:24
Researchers have found that Neanderthals used to organize their living spaces in ways that were familiar to modern humans, a discovery that once again shows similarities between the close cousins.
Last Updated: Tuesday, December 3, 2013, 19:35
Scientists have discovered a previously unknown human relative, with whom ancient man must have had sex with.
Last Updated: Monday, November 25, 2013, 12:11
A research group at Bonn University and international collaborators have discovered an "immune gene" in Neanderthals.
Last Updated: Wednesday, November 20, 2013, 17:27
An extinct human relative interbred with a mystery human species, according to a new study.
Last Updated: Tuesday, October 22, 2013, 12:52
A new study suggests that no known hominin is ancestor to the Neanderthals or modern humans.
Last Updated: Monday, October 21, 2013, 19:58
After studying calcified plaque on Neanderthal fossil teeth found in El Sidron cave in Spain, researchers have found that members of this extinct human species cooked vegetables and consumed bitter-tasting medicinal plants such as chamomile and yarrow.
Last Updated: Saturday, October 19, 2013, 11:22
Natural Environment Research Council-funded scientists working in the Channel island of Jersey, have re-discovered a record of Neanderthal archaeology, thought to be long lost
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