Neanderthals and Homo sapiens shared many similarities. But Neanderthals disappeared, while Homo sapiens evolved into modern ...

New analysis of a 140,000-year-old skull morphologically resembling modern humans and Neanderthals may be the earliest ...

Edited volume of papers from a conference of the same name held at New York University, Jan. 27-29, 2005. Contents Neanderthals revisited / K. Harvati and T. Harrison -- The distinctiveness and ...

Learn more about the differences between Homo sapiens and Neanderthals, and how those differences may have helped our ancestors adapt and evolve while Neanderthals went extinct.

On the slopes of Mount Carmel in northern Israel, a small skull has changed the story of human history. Buried in Skhul Cave roughly 140,000 years ago, the remains of a five-year-old child show that ...