A team of paleoanthropologists and geneticists from Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, EFS, ADES has found evidence of what may have been a contributing factor to the decline of Neanderthals. In their ...

Two distinct branches of the human family tree—modern humans and Neanderthals—crossed paths in a meeting that would forever change the genetic makeup of our species. The illuminated ...

For decades, we've thought of our Neanderthal cousins as brutish, primitive beings. Second-class humans driven extinct by their own fallibility and stupidity. But as we are fast learning ...

Around 40,000 years ago, Neanderthals living in what we now call France crafted tool handles using a special sticky substance. This sticky mix was made from ochre and bitumen, materials they gathered ...

But, interbreeding would change the human genome, which likely continued until Neanderthals went extinct around 40,000 years ago. And even today humans are left with some Neanderthal genes, many of ...

And though it superficially resembled a Neanderthal tooth, remains of that species had never been definitively identified in East Asia. The scientists exchanged baffled looks: Who was the owner of ...

While the new studies have reinforced the idea of Neanderthal and Homo sapiens admixture in Europe, the picture in South Asia regarding interbreeding and Homo Sapiens’ relationship with Denisovans ...

Archaeologists in Turnov, located in the Czech Republic's Liberec Region, have uncovered the remains of an ancient Neanderthal hunter-gatherer settlement, offering a rare glimpse into the prehistoric ...

New research reveals that Neanderthals possessed robust chest structures that enhanced their hunting abilities. The study, published in the Journal of Human Evolution, focused on the unique ...

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Dated to about 700,000 years old, the ... July 11, 2024 — Using genomes from 2,000 living humans as well as three Neanderthals and one Denisovan, an international team mapped the gene flow ...

How do you tell? Our close evolutionary cousins, the Neanderthals, make look like us but there are distinct features in their skulls that set them apart. Palaeoanthropologist describes the main ...