Tag: Neanderthal

Westerners are horror-struck by the prospect of an Ebola or Zika pandemic in their very own neighbourhood. Media panic aside, ...

People of European descent carry as much as 4 percent Neanderthal DNA, but the Y chromosome passed down from father ...

Researchers working in Spain have made a surprising finding: Neanderthals emerged much earlier than previously believed, perhaps as far as ...

Evidence points to the fact that Neanderthals used manganese dioxide, today commonly found in batteries, to light fires some 50,000 ...

Some 50,000 years ago Homo sapiens, Neanderthals and Denisovans co-existed, mingled and interbred. While only the human lineage exists today, ...

DNA analysis of the jawbone of a human who lived in modern day Romania some 40,000 years ago has the ...

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Recent archaeological and anthropological research showed that Neanderthals weren't the mindless brutes we once thought they were - they were ...

A partial skull fragment found in Kenya seems to indicate that early humans were much more diverse than previously thought. ...

An ancient skull found in Israel indicates that early Homo sapiens likely interbred with Neanderthals 50,000 years ago. The female skull is ...

Following the genome sequence of the oldest modern human remains outside of Africa using the most refined DNA analysis to ...

Neanderthals were one of the early hominids who used Levallois technique to make stone tools. Image: Prisma/UIG/Getty A breakthrough finding ...

Human face traits are so diverse because of evolutionary pressure, according to a new study published in Nature Communications. Photo: ...

Tibetans acquired a unique gene by interbreeding with a now-extinct human species. Photo: easytourchina.com Advancements in genetic sequencing has allowed ...

As more and more research is conducted on Neanderthals, we start to understand that we're not as unique as we ...

  Researchers have found obsidian spearheads dated 85.000 years ago before the development of Homo Sapiens (280.000 years ago). This ...

A new genome analysis study suggests that interbreeding between modern humans, Neanderthals, Denisovans and a mysterious archaic population was way ...

Modern humans started 'replacing' Neanderthals some 40.000 years ago, and for a long time, it was thought this came as ...

Our close cousins, the Neanderthals, were much more similar to us than we imagined even a decade ago, fascinating the ...

The first known case of a bone tumor has been discovered in a Neanderthal who lived about 120,000 years ago ...

German scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig have completed the first high-quality draft Neanderthal genome sequence, ...

Apparently, every month brings forth a new theory on the demise of the Neanderthals - the cookies one being that ...

A new carbon dating technique developed by Australian scientists may warrant a new extinction theory for the Neanderthals, which according ...

Just write, don't check This is again one of those which gets the media all hyped out, without checking the ...

Early humans developed sophisticated hunting weapons half a million years ago, 200.000 years before researchers believed they did. Image: Courtesy ...

Workers explore South Africa's Border Cave. A study shows modern culture may have emerged in the area much earlier than ...

The skeleton of an ancient caveman dubbed Brana 1 yielded the oldest DNA found in a modern human. CREDIT: Alberto ...

Hand stencils, red dots and animal figures currently represent the oldest examples yet found so far in cave art in ...

A new study which analyzed Neanderthal DNA suggests that our close, now extinct relatives were on the point of dying ...

Last year, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, produced a draft of the Denisova genome, in order study ...

The mating between Neanderthals and modern homo sapiens has been a highly controversial matter between scientists in the anthropology scene ...

There has been a long standing debate regarding the Neanderthal people, and what kind of legacy we carry from them. ...

Accurate dating of a Neanderthal fossil found in a Russian cave, showed that it was 10,000 years older than previous ...

Humanity's right handedness began at least 500.000 years ago, according to a new study conducted by University of Kansas researchers. ...

Usually, we tend to think of Neanderthals as being our bigger and stronger but not-so-intelligent cousins, but that may very ...

By all standards, at some point, Neanderthals were better prepared for life than any other human species; however, in spite ...

Svante Paabo, the researcher whose work provided the basis for the Jurassic Park movies seems to have struck gold once ...

Yes ladies and gents, researchers have produced the whole genome sequence of the 3 billion "letters" (nucleotides) in the Neanderthalian ...

Even among some scientific circles, Neanderthals are considered to be the 'stupid' cousins of the modern humans (although some claim ...

The Neanderthal has spakled controversies around scientists for many years, and most questions remain unanswered even today; they had many ...