A recent study compared features of Neanderthals' inner ears across space and time to extrapolate what happened to them tens of thousands of years ago.
Neanderthal fossils show a major population drop 110,000 years ago. Researchers link this to reduced genetic diversity.
New study challenges the theory that Neanderthals originated after an evolutionary event that implied the loss of part of ...
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Smithsonian Magazine on MSNMysterious Skeleton of Child With Human and Neanderthal Traits Has Finally Been Dated by ArchaeologistsIn 1998, archaeologists discovered the skeletal remains of a child in Portugal’s Lapedo Valley. When the team took a closer ...
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Sciencing on MSNNeanderthals Were Smarter Than We Ever RealizedMore than just mere cavemen, our Stone Age kin exhibited intelligence in surprising ways, making them more human than ...
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.
Conde-Valverde, co-author of the study, said, "By including fossils from a wide geographical and temporal range, we were able to capture a comprehensive picture of Neanderthal evolution.
Neanderthal genes seem to have hung around long after Neanderthals ... With every element returning the similar date range, ...
Advanced radiocarbon dating has provided the most accurate age assessment yet for the “Lapedo Child,” one of the most ...
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Live Science on MSN28,000-year-old Neanderthal-and-human 'Lapedo child' lived tens of thousands of years after our closest relatives went extinctResearchers used a novel method of radiocarbon dating to figure out the age of the Lapedo child, who had both Neanderthal and ...
Scientists have successfully dated the remains of the Lapedo Child, which possesses a "mosaic" of Human and Neanderthal ...
Neanderthal genes seem to have hung around ... With every element returning the similar date range, researchers believe they found more information about the burial process, which could have ...
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