Learn how these Neanderthal findings shaped what we know about Neanderthals and how our ancient human past is intertwined.

This year, we learned that our Neanderthal cousins were a lot like us, despite treading their own path that ended in ...

THE important discoveries in the domain of human palaeontology which have been made in recent years, and those, far greater in number, which may be referred to the Neolithic period, have now made ...

The major difference between Cro-Magnon and Neanderthal indicates that Neanderthals were outcompeted by the former.

Scientists have been volleying the question back and forth for more than a century. Neanderthals, which disappeared from the archaeological record roughly 40,000 years ago, have long been ...

Eventually our bold ancestors caught up with their Neanderthal cousins and did a bit more than just make friends. A new genetic analysis of the earliest known modern human remains found in Ranis ...

New research reveals how genes inherited from Neanderthals and critical developmental markers like PITX2 influence tooth size, shedding light on human evolution and genetic diversity. Study ...

In short: Wells assumed Neanderthals were unintelligent brutes. And he was absolutely not alone. For around a century, this ...

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