Imagine standing face-to-face with a Neanderthal, looking into eyes that reflect a world both alien and achingly familiar.

The international scientific community rebuffed this hypothesis. They were looking outside Africa for human origins and argued that the skull more likely belonged to a non-human primate. Dart was ...

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Neanderthals might have lived in today’s southwestern China during the Middle Stone Age, newly discovered tools similar to those previously found only in Europe and the Middle East suggest. An ...

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Findings, published in the journal Nature Human Behaviour, show that different hominin groups, including Homo sapiens and Neanderthal-like populations, weren't just existing in parallel.

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Researchers from the University of Washington excavating a site in China have found Neanderthal tools dating back almost 55,000 years. Their findings were published March 31 in Proceedings of the ...

The study authors added that skulls found in Xuchang in central China's Henan province also displayed some Neanderthal features, which "might indicate that human interactions occurred between the ...