The climate and early human societies were changing quickly during the fall of our closest evolutionary relative—and are big ...

Judging from fossil evidence from Sima de los Huesos in northern Spain and Swanscombe in Kent, the Neanderthal lineage was already well-established in Europe by 400,000 years ago. The species ranged ...

They were also able to estimate the amount of human DNA present in some lineages of Neanderthals. In particular, the Vindija and Altai Neanderthals could have had around 2.5 percent and 3.7 ...

In the study, scientists provided the genetic data for 13 Neanderthals from two Middle Palaeolithic sites in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia — 11 from the Chagyrskaya Cave and two from ...

But DNA from a fossil found earlier in a nearby cave had proved to be Neanderthal, so it was possible this bone was Neanderthal as well. The Theory The Denisovans’ closest cousins were Neanderthals.