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A surprising cache of stone tools unearthed in China closely resembles Neanderthal tech from Ice Age Europe.
For thousands of years, Neanderthals flourished across Eurasia. But new research suggests their genetic diversity plummeted in a sudden population collapse 110,000 years ago.
Neanderthals may have opened up forests using fire and cutting tools much earlier than modern humans have.
The two species may have imitated each other’s stone tools and jewelry.
These ancient hominids had a complex and complicated pattern of extinction.
Neanderthals had much better oral communication abilities than their ancestors, resembling those of humans.
More and more evidence suggests that Neanderthals were just as feeling and thinking creatures as humans.
Neanderthal thumbs were better adapted to holding tools with handles, a new study found.
Whenever distinct groups of humans and their ancestors overlapped in space and time, interbreeding was just around the corner.
The plot thickens.
About 700,000 years ago, the common ancestors of Denisovans and Neanderthals interbred with an archaic human population.
The closest extinct human relative was more similar to us than initially thought.
"Our results indicate that the disappearance of Neanderthals might have resided in the smallness of their population(s) alone," the paper's abstract reads.
Cheeky new details concerning the interbreeding between Neanderthals and our own species.
They took care of their community members without expecting anything in return.
The findings partially explain why humans were more successful than Neanderthals.
Yet another sign that the two species from the same Homo genus were very similar to one another.
Neanderthals were far more complex than meets the eye.
New insight into the evolution of Neanderthals but also into a common ancestral lineage.
*nods geologically*
We're still finding the fruits of this interspecies love affair.
So remember, don't smoke kids.
The study might help answer whether neanderthals were capable of the same communication abilities as humans.
Deep inside the Bruniquel Cave in France, a set of man-made structures 336 meters from the entrance lie as evidence to the former populations which inhabited the cave. These are among the oldest structures created by humans, and they have quite a story to tell about some of our ancestors. Until now, the earliest dated structures go back to […]
There has been a long standing debate regarding the Neanderthal people, and what kind of legacy we carry from them. Recently, a study conducted by an international team of researchers led by Damian Labuda of the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Montreal and the CHU Sainte-Justine Research Center showed that a part of […]
Usually, we tend to think of Neanderthals as being our bigger and stronger but not-so-intelligent cousins, but that may very well not be true; it has been shown on several occasions that Neanderthals were quite smart, and they could figure out a whole lot of things by their own, without immitating humans. In recent years, […]
