Modern humans can be recognized by their smaller facial structure when compared with Neanderthals and other hominin ancestors ...

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The tool we've identified is called a Quina scraper. This type of stone tool is well known from archaeological sites in ...

Discovery in China of tools called Quina scrapers suggests the people of East Asia were as inventive and flexible with ...

Neanderthals Feasted on Maggots Like Confections for Protein Source Regularly, Scientists Find Evidence Despite decades of ...

By comparing modern human, Neanderthal, and chimpanzee skulls, researchers have uncovered a unique trait having to do with ...

Using a new method of modeling genetic data, researchers identified a split in human ancestry dating back 1.5 million years. The two populations later reconnected. The mystery population (Population B ...

Discovered in 1998, the skeleton of the Lapedo child, a hybrid between modern humans and Neanderthals, has long intrigued scientists. Thanks to an innovative dating method, its age has finally been ...

"This population would later contribute about 80 percent of the genetic material of modern humans, and also seems to have been the ancestral population from which Neanderthals and Denisovans diverged.

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After four failed attempts, scientists have at last dated the skeleton of a possible human-Neanderthal hybrid found in Portugal more than two decades ago. The famous and mysterious Lapedo child lived ...