The coincidental emergence of lactase persistence mutations with livestock domestication was taken by many scientists at the ...

An 80,000-year-old bone spear tip, unearthed in Russia, challenges previous assumptions about Neanderthal capabilities. This ...

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Recent discoveries provide new insights into why Neanderthals became extinct around 40,000 years ago. Specifically, a study from the Globe Institute at the University of Copenhagen supports a long ...

English is the only language that turned Neanderthals, the long extinct Paleolithic hominin, into an insult and epithet. Since the naming of “Neanderthal Man” after the discovery of a skull ...

A Neanderthal artefact found in a cave in the Caucasus Mountains is the oldest bone spear tip ever found in Europe, a new ...

Jakub Hałun via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0 One of the most enduring questions in anthropology is why Neanderthals, our closest extinct human relatives, completely disappeared around ...

Understandably, this has generated a lot of “Jurassic Park”-like excitement, and the press coverage has been intense. One ...

This might have contributed to why humans lived and Neanderthals went extinct. “This is something that is deeply rooted in Homo sapiens,” says Slimak. “This new way that Homo sapiens behaved was super ...

Researchers have determined that a mysterious jawbone discovered on the seafloor off the coast of Taiwan was Denisovan, ...

Archaeologists have uncovered evidence of Neanderthal habitation in Kunakhera Cave, located in the Zagros Mountain range in ...