Neanderthals
New Evidence Suggests Neanderthals Cannibalized Outsider Women and Children
Anthropologists have spent centuries piecing together human history. For every interesting detail they discover, there are others that are, well, ...
Kissing is an ‘evolutionary conundrum.’ Scientists just mapped its unexpected origins
new study A study examining the evolution of kissing suggests that ancestors of apes and early humans such as Neanderthals ...
Neanderthals’ hefty noses weren’t well adapted to cold climates
Reconstruction of the face of a Neanderthal. Rygor Brue/Alami First analysis of a well-preserved nasal cavity in human fossil record ...
Denisovans may have interbred with mysterious group of ancient humans
Illustration of a teenage girl who is the offspring of a Neanderthal mother and a Denisovan father. PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOHN ...
Prehistoric crayons provide clues to how Neanderthals created art
Neanderthals may have used ocher crayons to draw on cave walls Gorodenkoff/Getty Images A remarkable yellow crayon discovered in Crimea, ...
Neanderthal-human hybrids may have been scourged by a genetic mismatch
Neanderthal woman model Joe McNally/Getty Modern humans may indeed have wiped out the Neanderthals, but not just through war or ...
