For decades, the disappearance of Neanderthals has been explained through dramatic stories of sudden extinction. Some theories suggested they were hunted, others that they starved when climates ...
A Neanderthal skull from Forbes' Quarry, Gibraltar. (AquilaGib/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0) Genetic deterioration may not ...
A roughly 110,000-year-old male Neanderthal and a roughly 120,000-year-old Neanderthal recovered from the same cave in ...
A new modeling study suggests that greater connectivity between groups may have given Homo sapiens the edge over Neanderthals. Why Neanderthals went extinct and Homo sapiens established a lasting ...
Using a specially developed simulation model, researchers at the University of Cologne have traced and analysed the dynamics of possible encounters between Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans ...
Neanderthals and modern humans split from a common ancestor around 500,000 years ago, with Neanderthals leaving Africa for Europe and Asia long before modern humans joined them hundreds of thousands ...
The Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis) fascinate researchers and the general public alike. They remain central to debates about the nature of the genus Homo (the broad biological classification that ...
Human evolution expert Professor Chris Stringer has studied Neanderthals his entire career. Here, he tells us what scientists have uncovered about the lifestyle of these early humans, their ...