Neanderthals were the first to artificially transform the world, turning a forest into grassland nearly 125,000 years ago
Neanderthals may have opened up forests using fire and cutting tools much earlier than modern humans have.
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Modern humans and Neanderthals could have coexisted in Western Europe and borrowed technology from each other
The two species may have imitated each other’s stone tools and jewelry.
Ancient tools reveal that Neanderthal groups went extinct in waves, replacing one another
These ancient hominids had a complex and complicated pattern of extinction.
Neanderthals likely spoke and understood language like humans
Neanderthals had much better oral communication abilities than their ancestors, resembling those of humans.
This 51,000-year-old Neanderthal bone carving may be one of the world’s oldest works of art
More and more evidence suggests that Neanderthals were just as feeling and thinking creatures as humans.
Power versus finesse: Neanderthals had powerful thumbs, while humans had finer control
Neanderthal thumbs were better adapted to holding tools with handles, a new study found.
An unknown ancestor mated with ancient humans. Its DNA is found in living people to this day
Whenever distinct groups of humans and their ancestors overlapped in space and time, interbreeding was just around the corner.
Scientists find the earliest evidence of ancient human interbreeding
About 700,000 years ago, the common ancestors of Denisovans and Neanderthals interbred with an archaic human population.
Neanderthals dived underwater for shells to use as tools
The closest extinct human relative was more similar to us than initially thought.
Neanderthal extinction could have been driven by inbreeding, demographic issues — not modern humans
"Our results indicate that the disappearance of Neanderthals might have resided in the smallness of their population(s) alone," the paper's ...
Scientists double the number of Neanderthal genomes, gleaning new tribal insights
Cheeky new details concerning the interbreeding between Neanderthals and our own species.
Neanderthals were compassionate caregivers, researchers suggest
They took care of their community members without expecting anything in return.
Early modern humans formed complex social networks to avoid inbreeding as early as 34,000 years ago
The findings partially explain why humans were more successful than Neanderthals.
Neanderthal and modern humans shared long childhoods
Yet another sign that the two species from the same Homo genus were very similar to one another.
Neanderthals were distilling tar 200,000 years ago well before humans
Neanderthals were far more complex than meets the eye.
Early Neanderthal DNA suggests a modern human-related dispersal from Africa as early as 220,000 years ago
New insight into the evolution of Neanderthals but also into a common ancestral lineage.
Pretty rock found in Croatia points at Neanderthals’ softer, artistic side
*nods geologically*
Interbreeding with Neanderthals gave us some good genes, but also diseases
We're still finding the fruits of this interspecies love affair.
Modern humans lost some of their smoke-resistance genes and we don’t know why
So remember, don't smoke kids.