Specific genomic regions that seem to play a role in human language development evolved hundreds of thousands of years ago, ...

University of Iowa researchers discovered human predecessors, previously thought to not be verbal, have parts of human DNA ...

In a first-of-its-kind finding, researchers at University of Iowa Health Care discovered that specific genetic sequences have ...

Neanderthal intelligence may have been similar to modern humans, with research showing minimal cognitive differences between ...

The Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis) fascinate researchers and the general public alike. They remain central to debates about the nature of the genus Homo (the broad biological classification that ...

Neanderthals and Homo Sapiens once shared the planet. However, one species perished while the other thrived, and researchers don't know exactly why. There are many speculations about them, with one of ...

Two new studies challenge long-held views of Neanderthal inferiority, showing their brain differences from early modern humans fall within modern human variation and that they shared genetic regions ...

Learn more about Human Ancestor Quickly Evolved Regions (HAQERs), genetic regulatory regions that may have shaped language ...

In The Inheritors, Willliam Golding’s second novel, Neanderthals utter only a few short words and think entirely with images.