A new study suggests preeclampsia, a deadly pregnancy disorder, may have contributed to Neanderthal extinction.

Neanderthals disappeared from the fossil record approximately 40,000 years ago. Their extinction was a gradual process over thousands of years, and theories as to why include competition with modern ...

They emphasized that the study allowed the team to look at both human biological and behavioral responses during pregnancy. "In many mammals, the fetal compartment has barriers separating it from the ...