The climate and early human societies were changing quickly during the fall of our closest evolutionary relative—and are big ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence that modern humans emerged from two long-separated ancestral groups, not just one. This ...

“When I got the skull, I thought I had to make a male, with all these rough features,” Adrie says, using a model of a male ...

When this model was then compared to 58 adult male Homo sapiens ribcages from around the world, the study authors found that the two Neanderthals strongly resembled ancient modern humans who lived ...

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The remains of the Lapedo Child, found in Portugal in 1998, showed signs of being both Neanderthal and human, as later confirmed by DNA. New techniques in radiocarbon dating allowed scientists to ...

Early Neanderthals were taller on average than later Neanderthals, but their weight was about the same. Model of a Homo neanderthalensis skeleton (front and back views). Neanderthals had stocky ...

The assimilation model, modern human origins in Europe, and the extinction of Neandertals. Quaternary International 137, 7-19 (2005). Stewart, J. R. The ecology and adaptation of Neanderthals ...

“Because we cannot have Neanderthal brains, the way to look at it was to study ... I think that the combination of so many different model systems really strengthens the argument.” The multitude of ...