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Did modern humans erase Neanderthals, or did our close cousins fade away for reasons that had little to do with us? A pair of major papers in Science and Nature on Dec. 12, 2024, sharpen that question ...

3D models of Homo sapiens (top two images) and Homo neanderthalensis (bottom two images) crania for visual comparison. The human model was created from DICOM files of an anonymized volunteer patient ...

The remains were found 10 years ago in Iraq, where researchers have been digging up a burial site since the 1950s. Ten years ago, archeologists found the remains of a shattered skull. In the years ...

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Modern humans have a small amount of Neanderthal DNA, and those genes still impact our health today. Scientists think they've figured out when the two groups started interbreeding and swapping DNA.

Long before agriculture, humans were transforming Europe’s wild landscapes. Advanced simulations show that hunting and fire use by Neanderthals and Mesolithic hunter-gatherers reshaped forests and ...

Using a specially developed simulation model, researchers at the University of Cologne have traced and analysed the dynamics of possible encounters between Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans ...

In the last decade of the last millennium, I began investigating our near, extinct cousin Homo neanderthalensis, or to those who thought him too feeble to stand as a species, H. sapiens neanderthalis.