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

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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 ...

Our human evolution expert Professor Chris Stringer, who has been studying Neanderthals and Homo sapiens for about 50 years, tackles the big question of whether we belong to the same species. Everyone ...

The Neanderthal is also shown with body decoration ... According to Alfons it's easy to know what people would look like around the part of the face where the flesh is thin, when you know the skull ...

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 ...

Neanderthals were consummate hunters of medium ... that does not resemble such concept or object. Symbols do not look like their referents. The meaning of a symbol is shared by a group of people ...

Neanderthals weren't the cave-dwelling, knuckle-dragging brutes they were once made out to be; in fact, they looked and acted a lot like us. Experts continue to debate exactly what Neanderthal ...

In a recent paper published in Nature, researchers describe how Neanderthals in Europe ate — revealing what the original version of the "paleo diet" was actually like. Turns out, the paleo diet ...

Neanderthals, modern humans’ closest evolutionary relatives, have been extinct for thousands of years. But due to interbreeding between the two groups around 55,000 years ago, remnants of our ...

a team of researchers at Aix-Marseille University in France decided to look into ancient genomes to better understand the evolutionary history of Neanderthals, Denisovans and humans. "Neanderthals ...