The woman, known as Shanidar Z, is a 75,000-year-old female Neanderthal ... and that’s how they like it. “If I’m working on ...

Ancestors or Relics? Neanderthals have long fascinated scientists and the general public alike. Are they our distant ...

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 ...

There has been some incredible research into the role this DNA plays in modern human neurodevelopment, so here's an overview ...

The reasons for the demise of the Neanderthals some 30 thousand years ago, only a few millennia after the first appearance of modern humans in Europe, remain controversial, and are a focus of ...

Human evolution expert Prof Chris Stringer has studied Neanderthals his entire career. Here, he tells us what scientists have uncovered about the lifestyle of these early humans, their distinctive ...

This suggests that Neanderthals circulated within relatively ... that does not resemble such concept or object. Symbols do not look like their referents. The meaning of a symbol is shared by ...

Everyone on the planet today, whatever they look like and wherever they live ... In the face of this seemingly decisive evidence, why do I cling to my belief that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens are ...