Neanderthals, our closest extinct relatives, lived in western Eurasia from 400,000 years ago
until they went extinct around 40,000 years ago. DNA retrieved from ancient specimens …

In this article, I first provide an overview of the Neandertals by recounting their initial
discovery and subsequent interpretation by scientists and by discussing our current …

The grey wolf (Canis lupus) was the first species to give rise to a domestic population, and
they remained widespread throughout the last Ice Age when many other large mammal …

Genomic analyses of Neanderthals have previously provided insights into their population
history and relationship to modern humans 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, but the social organization of …

Abstract Denisova Cave in southern Siberia is the type locality of the Denisovans, an archaic
hominin group who were related to Neanderthals,,–. The dozen hominin remains recovered …

Artefacts made from stones, bones and teeth are fundamental to our understanding of
human subsistence strategies, behaviour and culture in the Pleistocene. Although these …

Ancient DNA recovered from Pleistocene sediments represents a rich resource for the study
of past hominin and environmental diversity. However, little is known about how DNA is …

It has been proposed that climate change and the arrival of modern humans in Europe
affected the disappearance of Neanderthals due to their impact on trophic resources; …

When, where, and how often hominin interbreeding happened is largely unknown. We study
the potential for Neanderthal-Denisovan admixture using species distribution models that …

Neanderthal genomes have been recovered from sites across Eurasia, painting an
increasingly complex picture of their populations' structure that mostly indicates that late …