Neanderthals may have been far more like us than once believed. A new review of genetic, archaeological, and fossil evidence ...

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 ...

In a first-of-its-kind finding, researchers at University of Iowa Health Care discovered that specific genetic sequences have an outsized impact on humans’ language abilities and that these sequences ...

Language may feel like one of the most distinctly human things about you, but the genetic groundwork for it appears to be older than our own species. A new study from University of Iowa Health Care ...

Not every modern human has the same set of Neanderthal DNA, however; different people will, by chance, have inherited different fragments. But there are also some areas, termed “Neanderthal deserts,” ...

University of Iowa researchers discovered human predecessors, previously thought to not be verbal, have parts of human DNA that made them genetically capable of producing complex language. The April ...