These individuals are considered to be a key link between earlier species like Homo erectus and later species like Neanderthals and modern humans. The bones found in Sima de los Huesos are ...

For decades, we've thought of our Neanderthal cousins as brutish, primitive beings. Second-class humans driven extinct by their own fallibility and stupidity. But as we are fast learning ...

Neanderthal DNA strengthens the immune system and regulates inflammation Denisovan genes help with altitude adaptation and oxygen use Paleogenetics reveals that human evolution is more complex ...

“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.” ...

Artwork on the schematical representation of the distribuition of morphological variation of the inner ear along time in Neanderthals. Credit: Alessandro Urciuoli, Institut Català de Paleop An ...

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 ...

Early Homo sapiens shared the planet with other human species like Neanderthals and Homo erectus, but gradually emerged as the dominant species due to advancements in tools, social structures ...

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Life appearance reconstruction of a Neanderthal male at the Natural History Museum of London. Credit: Allan Henderson, under CC BY 2.0 New study challenges the theory that Neanderthals originated ...

These findings are likely linked to Neanderthal habitation. Hassanpour added that the discovery of painted buff ware and red ware from the Chalcolithic period (over 5,500 years ago) indicates the cave ...