Tag: neanderthals

These ancient hominids had a complex and complicated pattern of extinction.

Neanderthals may have opened up forests using fire and cutting tools much earlier than modern humans have.

Neanderthals had much better oral communication abilities than their ancestors, resembling those of humans.

More and more evidence suggests that Neanderthals were just as feeling and thinking creatures as humans.

Neanderthal thumbs were better adapted to holding tools with handles, a new study found.

Whenever distinct groups of humans and their ancestors overlapped in space and time, interbreeding was just around the corner.

The plot thickens.

About 700,000 years ago, the common ancestors of Denisovans and Neanderthals interbred with an archaic human population.

The closest extinct human relative was more similar to us than initially thought.

"Our results indicate that the disappearance of Neanderthals might have resided in the smallness of their population(s) alone," the paper's ...

Cheeky new details concerning the interbreeding between Neanderthals and our own species.

They took care of their community members without expecting anything in return.

The findings partially explain why humans were more successful than Neanderthals.

Yet another sign that the two species from the same Homo genus were very similar to one another.

Neanderthals were far more complex than meets the eye.

New insight into the evolution of Neanderthals but also into a common ancestral lineage.

*nods geologically*

We're still finding the fruits of this interspecies love affair.

So remember, don't smoke kids.

The study might help answer whether neanderthals were capable of the same communication abilities as humans.