Neanderthals

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Ancient Teenager the First Known Person with Parents of Two Different Species

Michelle Langley 31/08/2018

Ancient DNA in a 50,000+ year old bone tells...

FILE PHOTO: A doctor holds a human brain in a brain bank in the Bronx borough of New York City, New York, US June 28, 2017. Credit: Reuters/Carlo

Scientists Hunt Down Genes Behind Humankind’s Big Brain

Will Dunham 01/06/2018

These genes, found only in people, appeared between three...

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Warning Signs: How Early Humans First Began to Paint Animals

Derek Hodgson and Paul Pettitt 13/05/2018

Figurative art may derive from Neanderthal hand prints and...

The way we move our eyebrows can help us to communicate. Credit: Pexels

The Evolutionary Advantage of Having Eyebrows

Penny Spikins 11/04/2018

The evolution of the eyebrows performed an important function...

The Denisovan pinky bone fragment discovered in the Altai mountains, Siberia. Credit: Thilo Parg/Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 3.0

Early Humans Mated With the Neanderthals’ Enigmatic Cousins. Twice.

Sruti Ramesh 26/03/2018

A new study has found that ancient human populations...

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Neanderthals, Not Modern Humans, Were Europe’s First Painters

Ben Hirschler 23/02/2018

New analysis from Spain provides the strongest evidence yet...

A close-up view of the teeth accompanying the left maxilla of human remains from Misliya Cave in Israel, the oldest remains of our species Homo sapiens found outside Africa, is provided in this photo released on January 25, 2018. Credit: Handout via Reuters/ Israel Hershkovitz/Tel Aviv University

Fossil Jawbone Found in Israel Is the Oldest Modern Human Found Outside Africa

Rolf Quam 26/01/2018

New discoveries are changing archaeologists' ideas about the origins...