Neanderthals, meanwhile, are thought to have typically possessed wider, “bell-shaped” ribcages, thus giving them a ...

A pair of new studies sheds light on a pivotal but mysterious chapter of the human origin story, revealing that modern humans and Neanderthals had babies together for an extended period ...

That both papers reinforce the idea that the ancestors of all people outside Africa got their Neanderthal ancestry in a single swoop is “striking”, says Alexander Platt, a geneticist at the ...