Human Origins / Neanderthals

#35: Neanderthals Get Personal

Researchers sequence most of their genome and say they probably spoke much like we did. 01.25.2010

Did We Mate With Neanderthals, or Did We Murder Them?

In some places, we ate them. More generally, modern humans' more varied lifestyle may have been the key to the survival. 12.30.2009

#8: Cavemen: They're Just Like Us

Neanderthals were a sophisticated bunch, according to new research. 12.21.2008

Will We Ever Clone a Caveman?

The first complete Neanderthal skeleton shows how our species has evolved. 09.01.2006

Works in Progress

Did we rub out the Neanderthals? Or did we rub off on them? 03.01.2002

Science News

12.01.1999

Learning to Love Neanderthals

Does the 25,000-year-old body of a child found in Portugal make it more likely that they are our ancestors? 08.01.1999

Neanderthal Musical Instruments Included Tusk-Tuba, Bladder-Bagpipe, and "Xylobone"

The Neander Valley was, apparently, alive with the sound of music. 04.01.1997

Neanderthal Noses

03.01.1997

The Face of an Ancestral Child

The remains of an 11-year-old who lived and died 800,000 years ago have been found in northern Spain, at a place called Atapuerca. The child's people may have been the ancestors of Neanderthals. But the child's face was ours. 12.01.1996

A Breed Apart

01.01.1996

The Neanderthal Peace

For perhaps 50,000 years, two radically different types of human lived side by side in the same small land. And for all those millennia, the two apparently had nothing whatsoever to do with each other. Why in the world not? 09.01.1995