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Women who carry the Neandertal receptor for progesterone tend to have fewer bleedings during early pregnancy, fewer miscarriages, and give birth to more children

Findings point to molecular resemblance in climate adaptation traits of the two species

Present-day humans who carry particular Neandertal DNA fragments have heads that are slightly less rounded

Teeth may be an important new resource for understanding the lives of our extinct relatives

The reconstruction could potentially shed new light on how this ancient human moved and breathed

Curiously, some snippets of Neanderthal DNA pop up more often in modern human populations than others

They have an unwarranted image as brutish and uncaring, but new research has revealed just how knowledgeable and effective Neanderthal healthcare was

Hominin Fossils show that brain size increased gradually and consistently

Spear-throwing gave homo sapiens better eye-hand coordination, smarter brains