A groundbreaking study published in Nature Communications has revealed a catastrophic genetic bottleneck in Neanderthal evolution, fundamentally altering what scientists believed about their diversity ...

From cave paintings to DNA discoveries, scientists are constantly coming across new clues about their intelligence, culture, and connection to modern humans. With each fresh piece of information, we ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. When scientists sequenced the Neanderthal genome in 2010, they learned that Neanderthals ...