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There’s One Place On Earth Where Neanderthals And Modern Humans Both Made Rock Art

Palaeolithic humans living on both sides of the Strait of Gibraltar were a creative bunch to say the least, and were ...
Live Science

'More Neanderthal than human': How DNA from our long-lost ancestors affects our health today

But some Neanderthal DNA helped modern humans survive and reproduce, and thus it has lingered in our genomes. Nowadays, ...
Study Finds on MSN

Africa likely birthplace of modern humans, Moroccan fossils suggest

Bones From 773,000 Years Ago Capture Human Evolution at a Crossroads In A Nutshell Ancient African fossils dated to around ...

The Year in Neanderthals

They drew with crayons, possibly fed on maggots and maybe even kissed us: Forty millenniums later, our ancient human cousins ...
The Daily Star

Mysterious 'Denisovans' DNA helped modern humans survive

The human immune system like fat and blood sugar levels may have been due to genetic mutations from Denisovans, our little known extinct human relatives ...

773,000-Year-Old Fossils Add a New Twist to Humanity’s Deep Origins

For decades, anthropologists lumped these ancient populations into a single species, Homo heidelbergensis, long believed to ...
Ancient Origins

Model Reveals Extreme Rarity of Encounters Between Neanderthals and Modern Humans

This innovative approach combines climate data, archaeological evidence, and population dynamics to simulate how Neanderthals moved across the landscape. The model reveals that by the time ...
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Humans and Neanderthals are far more connected than once thought

The discovery of ancient human cousins has long stirred wonder and debate. Early Neanderthal remains offered a glimpse into our distant past, prompting questions about how they lived and whether ...