Research from the University of Kent’s School of Anthropology and Conservation has discovered that one of the earliest stone tool cultures, known as the Acheulean,…
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Galería de las Estatuas cave site in northern Spain. Credit: Javier Trueba – Madrid Scientific Films For the first time, scientists have succeeded in extracting…
This skull from Zlatý kůň cave near Prague belonged to the earliest known modern human in Europe. Credit: Marek Jantač The fossil skull of a…
New research has found that a group of genes that reduces the risk of developing severe COVID-19 by around 20% is inherited from Neanderthals. Credit:…
Neanderthal-ized brain organoids (left) look very different than modern human brain organoids (right) — they have a distinctly different shape, and differ in the way…
The view from Shukbah Cave. Credit: Amos Frumkin Long held in a private collection, the newly analyzed tooth of an approximately 9-year-old Neanderthal child marks…
Neanderthal thumbs were better adapted to holding tools in the same way that we hold a hammer, according to a paper published in Scientific Reports. The…
A study published in Nature shows that a segment of DNA that causes their carriers to have an up to three times higher risk of…
An upper canine milk-tooth that belonged to a Neanderthal child, aged 11 or 12, that lived between 48,000 and 45,000 years ago. Credit: Journal of…
Matthias Meyer at work in the clean laboratory at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. Credit: MPI f. Evolutionary Anthropology Neanderthals have adopted male…
The advent of DNA sequencing has given scientists a clearer insight into the interconnectedness of evolution and the web-like path that different organisms take, splitting…
Evidence continues to mount that the Neandertals, who lived in Europe and Asia until about 40,000 years ago, were more sophisticated people than once thought.…
Neanderthal-Denisovan ancestors interbred with a distantly related hominin 700,000 years ago. For three years, anthropologist Alan Rogers has attempted to solve an evolutionary puzzle. His…
The Neanderthal skull, flattened by thousands of years of sediment and rock fall, in situ in Shanidar Cave, Iraqi Kurdistan. Credit: Graeme Barker The first…
Complex disease transmission patterns could explain why it took tens of thousands of years after first contact for our ancestors to replace Neanderthals throughout Europe…
New study on early human fire acquisition squelches debate. Fire starting is a skill that many modern humans struggle with in the absence of a…
A researcher works at a trench at Stelida (Naxos, Greece). Credit: Evaggelos Tzoumenekas An international research team led by scientists from McMaster University has unearthed…