Neanderthal extinction occurred roughly 40,000 years ago with the immigration of modern humans (Cro-Magnons), but Neanderthals in Gibraltar may have persisted for thousands of …

Dec 24, 2025 · Neanderthal, one of a group of archaic humans who emerged at least 200,000 years ago in the Pleistocene Epoch and were replaced or assimilated by early modern human …

What is a Neanderthal? Are Neanderthals human? Find out facts about the species Homo neanderthalensis, including when these ancient people lived and what they looked like.

Jan 3, 2024 · Neanderthals made and used a diverse set of sophisticated tools, controlled fire, lived in shelters, made and wore clothing, were skilled hunters of large animals and also ate …

Jul 31, 2025 · Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis) were not a detour on the road to us—they were a parallel branch, a sister species. Their story begins in Africa, where our last common …

Analysis of modern human DNA reveals that non-African populations carry approximately 1% to 4% Neanderthal genetic material. This genetic legacy indicates interbreeding occurred, …

Mar 6, 2023 · Those who embrace this theory believe that once Neanderthal populations declined, humans moved in and eventually became the dominant species worldwide. Still another theory …

Jan 3, 2026 · The picture changed considerably in 2010 after the Max Planck Institute published the complete Neanderthal genome, which revealed that people of European or Asian descent …

Oct 21, 2016 · Neanderthals are an extinct group of fossil humans that appeared in Western Eurasia in the mid-Middle Pleistocene and shared the stage with the first modern humans …

Jan 5, 2026 · How did Neanderthals come to be — and how did they vanish? These two long-debated questions still lack definitive answers. For years, scientists have suspected that a loss …