As if Neanderthals weren’t already mysterious enough, groundbreaking research adds a startling new layer to our understanding ...

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How can two Neanderthal communities live within ten days’ walk and still remain strangers for 50,000 years? In the Rhone Valley, the rock shelter of Grotte Mandrin, there is a partial set of ...

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I have spent years covering discoveries that nudge our origin story around the edges, but the sequencing of DNA from one of the very last Neanderthals does something different: it rewrites the center ...

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Neandertals traveled at least two evolutionary paths on their way to extinction around 40,000 years ago, a new study suggests. Whether classified as a separate species or a variant of Homo sapiens, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 2015, a paleoanthropology team discovered jaw remains of a roughly 42,000-year-old Neanderthal in France. Over the next several ...

In 2015, a paleoanthropology team discovered jaw remains of a roughly 42,000-year-old Neanderthal in France. Over the next several years, the team, lead by Ludovic Slimak, found more of the ...