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

A new study suggests the extinction of Neanderthals nearly coincided with a shift in Earth's magnetic field that let more ...

Recent discoveries provide new insights into why Neanderthals became extinct around 40,000 years ago. Specifically, a study ...

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To investigate the archaic ancestry of the living human population, Akey and Vernot set to work searching for Neanderthal DNA in modern genomes. They developed a statistical approach to identify ...

New research suggests that early humans may have used ochre as sunscreen to survive a deadly period of intense solar radiation.

Their models suggest that the strongest impacts affected Europe and Northern Africa, which is precisely where the early Homo sapiens and Neanderthal populations thrived alongside one another.

Since the naming of “Neanderthal Man” after the discovery of a skull cap with protruding brow ridges in Prussia in 1856, the species (or subspecies) has had a bad rap as a foil and lesser ...

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At sites associated with modern humans, archaeologists have found hide-scraping stones, as well as needles and awls, which were probably used for sewing, but these were absent from Neanderthal sites.