Most people alive today carry fragments of Neanderthal DNA in their genome. Now scientists are gaining a more intimate ...
‘Would you rather eat slimy maggots or crunchy beetles?’ Survivalist Bear Grylls once answered Entertainment Weekly without hesitation: maggots slide down easier. It now appears Neanderthals may have ...
Plants have been part of our diet as long as meat has, with new evidence showing that Neanderthals, early Homo sapiens and even earlier Homo hominins were using and processing starches, grass seeds, ...
A preference for pairings between male Neanderthals and female Homo sapiens may answer the question of why there are "Neanderthal deserts" in human chromosomes.
People who study Neanderthals have often wondered about nitrogen. You see, the more meat that an animal eats, the more the isotope nitrogen-15 shows up in its remains. And Neanderthals, who were ...
A new study suggests preeclampsia, a deadly pregnancy disorder, may have contributed to Neanderthal extinction.
When ancient humans mated, dad was a Neanderthal, mom was Homo sapiens.