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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 ...
Scientists date remains of an ancient child that resembles both humans and Neanderthals
NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists have dated the skeleton of an ancient child that caused a stir when it was first discovered ...
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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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.
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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 ...
Your DNA Is (Almost Certainly) From Outer Space
Did you know that many of us have up to 4% neanderthal DNA? And that 100% of your DNA may come from outer space? No joke. The biochemistry that defined the coding system of your D ...
Neanderthal 'population bottleneck' around 110,000 years ago may have contributed to their extinction
A study of the inner ear bones of Neanderthals shows a significant loss of diversity in their shape around 110,000 years ago, ...
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Scientists date remains of an ancient child that resembles both humans and Neanderthals
That was a radical notion at the time, but advances in genetics have since proven those populations existed — and people today still carry Neanderthal DNA. But trying to figure out when exactly ...