What truly makes humans human? The Swedish biologist Svante Pääbo has made notable progress lately toward answering that question. His new book, "Neanderthal Man," tells the story of his ...

The man was revealed to be a Neanderthal, the image suggesting that his resemblance to modern humans was proof that the differences really came down to a matter of hair and clothing. Grab a Copy ...

Stephane de Sakutin/AFP via Getty Images hide caption. toggle caption. Stephane de Sakutin ... Neanderthals are distant cousins of humans that lived between 430,000 and 40,000 years ago.

First 'concrete picture' of Neanderthal family revealed by DNA. ... The researchers also worked out that one man was a maternal relative of the father because he had a genetic phenomenon called ...

Around 250,000 years ago, early humans in Africa started heading towards the cooler climes of Eurasia. There, they encountered the Neanderthals, our now-extinct relatives, and over centuries these ...

Using uranium thorium dating, they tested the calcium and estimated that the Altamura Man was between 130,000 years and 172,000 years old, placing it among the oldest Neanderthal fossil ever found. A ...

Researchers in Germany said Tuesday they have completed the first high-quality sequencing of a Neanderthal genome and are making it freely available online for other scientists to study. The ...