The Fascination with Neanderthals Begins For many, the name Neanderthals conjures images of hairy, robust humans who walked ...

Neanderthals are basically cousins to modern homo sapiens, evolutionarily speaking. Despite that fact, however, most people not only know very little about them but what they do think they know is ...

indicating that Neanderthals exploited marine resources when they had the opportunity (Stringer et al. 2008). Aurignacian: An early Upper Paleolithic archaeological culture found throughout Europe ...

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 ...

Our Belgian Neanderthal is in his twenties and stands 155cm tall The ... who was part of the Gravettian prehistoric culture of Europe. He is reconstructed from a male Homo sapiens skeleton from ...

If your recent ancestry lies outside of Africa, you can safely assume that you carry some Neanderthal DNA. Human origins expert Professor Chris Stringer discusses what this Neanderthal inheritance may ...

“The results point to a mosaic pattern of Neanderthal extinction in Europe and provide a shorter time frame for the potential interaction of humans with Neanderthals,” said study author Ron Pinhasi, a ...

But, interbreeding would change the human genome, which likely continued until Neanderthals went extinct around 40,000 years ago. And even today humans are left with some Neanderthal genes, many of ...

“And what’s really exciting is that even though there was this broader scope of traits that was considered, they point to effects of Neanderthal DNA on similar systems to what’s been seen previously.” ...

Scientists have long agreed that early humans mated with Neanderthals, but a pair of recent studies have shed light on when exactly this DNA mixing occurred. Such a revelation could help ...

It looks like Neanderthals did have some sense of style as indicated by a piece of rock crystal found at a Neanderthal site in the Altai Mountains, Southern Siberia NOVOSIBIRSK, August 13.