If you were to greet a Neanderthal with a handshake, it might feel a little awkward. Homo neanderthalensis had chunkier fingers compared to human digits – and used their hands differently from ...

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Neanderthals used stone hand axes, or bifaces, like these, along with chunks of pyrite, to light fires. Credit: Johnbod via Wikimedia Commons ...

In a nutshell A 43,000-year-old fingerprint preserved in red ochre on a Spanish pebble represents the oldest known evidence ...

Neanderthals lived in Europe and western Asia until they were replaced by modern humans about 40,000 years ago. But before Neanderthals disappeared, they mixed — and mated — with modern humans.

Neanderthal hand axes are relatively small and dark two-sided flints, which makes them recognizable, according to Sainsbury. They're clearly distinct from the Middle or Lower Paleolithic finds in ...

A Damaging Hand Disease Has Neanderthal Roots The early human species passed on certain genes to Homo sapiens that today result in many Europeans suffering from Dupuytren's disease. By Matt Hrodey.

Ben, nine, discovered a 50,000 year old Neanderthal hand axe on Shoreham Beach A boy who found a shiny rock while playing at a beach has been told the item is a Neanderthal hand axe that could be ...

Genetic variants inherited from Neanderthal man appear to be the most powerful risk factors for developing Dupuytren's contracture, which causes the fingers of men to lock up in a bent position.

A hand ax dating back at least 45,000 years was recently discovered in Switzerland, officials said. Photo from Kanton Basel-Landschaft A rare Neanderthal hand ax was recently discovered in ...

If you were to greet a Neanderthal with a handshake, it might feel a little awkward. Homo neanderthalensis had chunkier fingers compared to human digits – and used their hands differently from ...

A Damaging Hand Disease Has Neanderthal Roots ... “This is a case where the meeting with Neanderthals has affected who suffers from illness,” says the paper’s lead author, Hugo Zeberg in a press ...