A recent study compared features of Neanderthals' inner ears across space and time to extrapolate what happened to them tens of thousands of years ago.

Recent fossil analysis is reshaping our understanding of Neanderthal origins, questioning long-held assumptions about their ...

New study challenges the theory that Neanderthals originated after an evolutionary event that implied the loss of part of ...

Neanderthal fossils show a major population drop 110,000 years ago. Researchers link this to reduced genetic diversity.

When you view the casts head-on, the Neanderthal may appear disproportionately larger. Neanderthals did have larger faces than early moderns, but the size discrepancy is enhanced here by the fact ...

This reduced variation might be the result of a bottleneck event—a decline in population size that leads to a loss of genetic diversity. "This challenges the common assumption of a bottleneck event at ...

The research suggests that the bottleneck occurred later in Neanderthal evolution than previously ... had a small effective population size, suggesting a highly fragmented metapopulation.