The climate and early human societies were changing quickly during the fall of our closest evolutionary relative—and are big clues to the causes of their demise.

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The remains of the Lapedo Child, found in Portugal in 1998, showed signs of being both Neanderthal and human, as later confirmed by DNA. New techniques in radiocarbon dating allowed scientists to ...

“When I got the skull, I thought I had to make a male, with all these rough features,” Adrie says, using a model of a male ...

Early Neanderthals were taller on average than later Neanderthals, but their weight was about the same. Model of a Homo neanderthalensis skeleton (front and back views). Neanderthals had stocky ...

The assimilation model, modern human origins in Europe, and the extinction of Neandertals. Quaternary International 137, 7-19 (2005). Stewart, J. R. The ecology and adaptation of Neanderthals ...

A study of the inner ear bones of Neanderthals shows a significant loss of diversity in their shape around 110,000 years ago, suggesting a genetic bottleneck that contributed to Neanderthals' decline.

the research team created an ecological model combined with geographic data pinpointing Neanderthal and human archaeological ...

Speculation suggests that the Neanderthal NPC may be part of cut content, but the fully rendered character model and unique animation imply there may be more to discover. Some believe that the ...