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

A team of paleoanthropologists and geneticists from Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, EFS, ADES has found evidence of what may have been a contributing factor to the decline of Neanderthals. In their paper ...

Together with an Asian people known as Denisovans, Neanderthals are our closest ancient human relatives. Scientific evidence suggests our two species shared a common ancestor. Current evidence from ...

Ancestors or Relics? Neanderthals have long fascinated scientists and the general public alike. Are they our distant ...

There has been some incredible research into the role this DNA plays in modern human neurodevelopment, so here's an overview ...

Evidence shows that, in western Europe, most raw materials used for stone tools are local and come from sources within 5 km of each site. This suggests that Neanderthals circulated within ...

The models are based on the very best scientific evidence we could put together. 'When they come face-to-face with the Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon men, people have as close as they can get to a real ...

These latest findings "line up with archaeological evidence that suggests Neanderthals and humans overlapped in geography as humans traveled out of Africa." The new studies are also "much more of ...

Neanderthal blood types may have made them ill-equipped to deal with infectious diseases.

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 ...

Neanderthal blood protein differences linked to health risks Rare RhD type incompatible with other hominid blood types Genetic incompatibilities may explain Neanderthal extinction ...

Creswell Crags is the most northerley point in the World that we have Neanderthal evidence, such as this handaxe.This flint handaxe is one of a few items left by the first humans to visit the county.