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Mysterious Skeleton of Child With Human and Neanderthal Traits Has Finally Been Dated by Archaeologists
In 1998, archaeologists discovered the skeletal remains of a child in Portugal’s Lapedo Valley. When the team took a closer ...
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A Mysterious Child With Human And Neanderthal Traits Found In Portugal Was Buried 28,000 Years Ago
New research has found that the skeleton of a child with both Neanderthal and modern human traits has been dated […] ...
Something Bad Happened to Neanderthals 110,000 Years Ago—and It May Have Sealed Their Fate
A recent study compared features of Neanderthals' inner ears across space and time to extrapolate what happened to them tens ...
The last days of the Neanderthals
The climate and early human societies were changing quickly during the fall of our closest evolutionary relative—and are big ...
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Neanderthals, homo sapiens, and a needless racial row – Andrew Kenny
It began when Nhlamulo “Nota” Baloyi made the following remarks about white people: “They are inferior species (compared) to ...
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Neanderthal fossils reveal signs of a devastating population collapse
Neanderthal fossils show a major population drop 110,000 years ago. Researchers link this to reduced genetic diversity.
ZME Science on MSN7d
A Population Collapse 110,000 Years Ago May Have Doomed The Neanderthals
For thousands of years, Neanderthals flourished across Eurasia. But new research suggests their genetic diversity plummeted ...
Testing the Out of Africa model in East Eurasian genomic origins
University of Tokyo researchers have investigated the origin and dispersal scenarios of Homo sapiens into East Eurasia. The ...
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East Asians who can digest lactose can thank Neanderthal genes
Unique versions of the lactase gene found in the genomes of East Asian people may have increased in prevalence within the ...