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Paleoanthropologist Ludovic Slimak, who studies Neanderthals and their possible interactions with Homo sapiens, holds two tools, the smaller belonging to H. sapiens, the other to Neanderthals ...

Neanderthals have long been the subject of intense scientific debate. This is largely because we still lack clear answers to some of the big questions about their existence and supposed disappearance.

The predecessors of the Neanderthals likely split from the ancestors of modern humans at least 500,000 years ago, and spread out across Europe and into southwest and central Asia. The new study ...

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The team’s method estimated that the life expectancy for Neanderthals was 37.8 years, and the same for another extinct member of the Homo family tree: Homo denisova, better known as the Denisovans.