For the past 40,000 years, Homo sapiens have been the only human species on Earth. Our ancestors, including the Neanderthals and Denisovans, disappeared long before us, leaving behind only fossils and ...

Human faces are famously flatter than those of other primates. Neanderthals, by contrast, had prominent, projecting midfaces ...

Neanderthals left behind various clues about their enigmatic lives. But less is known about their spiritual sides. Some ...

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Edited volume of papers from a conference of the same name held at New York University, Jan. 27-29, 2005. Contents Neanderthals revisited / K. Harvati and T. Harrison -- The distinctiveness and ...

Sixty thousand years ago, two groups of Neanderthals lived just a stone’s throw apart in what’s now northern Israel. But they had very different cultures when it came to food, according to a recent ...

Neanderthals, our extinct cousins, are often portrayed as eating nothing but meat — no fruit, no grains, no greens. But did Neanderthals really live on meat alone? While there's plenty of evidence ...