Neanderthals

Health Neanderthals and modern humans interbred 50,000 years ago

Neanderthal genes influenced modern human evolution, immunity, and migration patterns, with insights from ancient and modern genomes.

Discoveries Early Homo Sapiens lived together with Neanderthals 45,000 years ago Joseph Shavit

Discoveries New DNA evidence finds that Neanderthals didn’t go extinct Rebecca Shavit

Discoveries DNA evidence reveals that Neanderthals didn’t go extinct Rebecca Shavit

Discoveries DNA evidence indicates Neanderthals didn’t go extinct – were absorbed into today’s human ancestry Rebecca Shavit

Discoveries Six-year-old Neanderthal child with Down syndrome rewrites history of human compassion Rebecca Shavit

Discoveries Ancient Neanderthal gene makes humans more sensitive to pain, study finds Joshua Shavit

Discoveries Modern Humans and Neanderthals lived together 45,000 years ago, study finds Joshua Shavit

Discoveries Surprisingly, Neanderthals were as intelligent as Homo Sapiens, study finds Joseph Shavit

Discoveries Reviving ancient life: Neanderthal bacteria resurrected Joseph Shavit

Discoveries Meet the world’s first Neandertal family Joseph Shavit

Discoveries Modern humans generate more brain neurons than Neandertals Joseph Shavit

Discoveries When did the genetic variations that make us human emerge?Joseph Shavit

Discoveries What explains our lower back pain? Anthropologists turn to Neandertals for answers Joseph Shavit

Global Good Cave painting show Neanderthals were not the boorish relatives of Homo sapiens Joseph Shavit