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For more than a century, Neanderthals have been cast as a vanished side branch of the human family tree, a brief encounter in ...

3D models of Homo sapiens (top two images) and Homo neanderthalensis (bottom two images) crania for visual comparison. The human model was created from DICOM files of an anonymized volunteer patient ...

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Modern humans and Neanderthals were interacting 100,000 years earlier than previously thought, according to researchers who used CT scans and 3D mapping to study the bones of a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A child’s skull discovered in Israel reveals humans and Neanderthals were mixing 100,000 years earlier than thought. (CREDIT: ...

Demography relating known and proposed archaic lineages to modern human populations. (A) Basic demographic model with CSFS fit. W Afr, West Africans; Eur, European; N, Neanderthal; D, Denisovan; UA, ...

For years, researchers analyzing traumatic injuries found on Neanderthal fossils believed they had lived dangerous, violent lives. But a new study reveals that early modern humans and Neanderthals ...

Using a specially developed simulation model, researchers at the University of Cologne have traced and analysed the dynamics of possible encounters between Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans ...

On the slopes of Mount Carmel in northern Israel, a small skull has changed the story of human history. Buried in Skhul Cave roughly 140,000 years ago, the remains of a five-year-old child show that ...