Now, according to The Guardian, a new analysis has now found the skull fragment to be the oldest human fossil ever found ...

The early modern human and Neanderthal model heads before they were painted, sitting on a shelf alongside a skull cast in the Kennis brothers' studio These techniques include layering clay over a cast ...

Their study, published in the Journal of Human Evolution, compared fossils from Neanderthals, chimpanzee skulls, and modern human skulls. They found that, besides Neanderthals and humans already ...

Female Homo neanderthalensis skull discovered at Tabun Cave at Mount Carmel in Israel. Known as Tabun 1, this Neanderthal specimen is around 130,000 years old. Neanderthals evolved in Europe and Asia ...

The researchers estimate that the skulls are about 430,000 years old—the oldest ... age for the split between the lineages that ultimately led to the Neanderthals and to the modern humans,” said ...

One of the great mysteries of human evolution is the intermediate step represented by the presence of Neanderthals for thousands of years. The question is whether their disappearance is linked to ...

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 ...

Since the naming of “Neanderthal Man” after the discovery of a skull cap with protruding brow ... It bothered no one to make use of one kind of human to slander another, so long as they ...