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'It haunts all our imaginations': Were Neanderthals really like us?In this adapted extract from The Naked Neanderthal: A New Understanding of the Human Creature, Ludovic Slimak examines how we should view our ancient relatives, the Neanderthals.
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'Simply did not work': Mating between Neanderthals and modern humans may have been a product of failed alliances, says archaeologist Ludovic Slimak"When two populations are close to one another but they are very distinct — maybe they can have a different language and different traditions, they are in neighboring territories — they are going to exchange their women."
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Did art exist before modern humans? New discoveries raise big questions.Feature Scientists are finding ever-earlier examples of artistic expression in the archaeological record that reshape what we know about the cognitive abilities of our archaic human relatives, such as Neanderthals.
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45,000-year-old bones unearthed in cave are oldest modern-human remains in Central EuropeThe finding suggests that 'successive pulses of small groups' of humans replaced Neanderthals in Europe starting around 45,000 years ago.
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Our 10 most-read health stories of 2023Live Science's most-read health stories from 2023 feature Neanderthal DNA, harrowing medical case reports and curious new research findings.
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When did Homo sapiens first appear?What's the oldest fossil evidence humans have for our species?
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Weathered face of 'old man' Neanderthal comes to life in amazing new facial reconstructionA new facial reconstruction depicts a Neanderthal whose skeleton was found by priests in a French cave.
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Humans and Neanderthals mated 250,000 years ago, much earlier than thoughtA comparison of the genomes of a Neanderthal who lived 120,000 years ago in Siberia with those from modern humans in sub-Saharan Africa has revealed insight into the migratory and interbreeding history of both species.
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When did humans start burying their dead?Ancient caves mark the beginning of recorded burial rituals, but there's still so much we don't know about the history of human graves.
