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PNAS Study Finds Neanderthal and Human Brain Anatomy Largely Overlap

The authors argue population dynamics, not innate deficits, best explain Neanderthals' disappearance.

Virtual Reconstruction Reveals Little Foot’s Face, Hinting East African Affinities

Study Finds Sex-Biased Neanderthal–Human Mating Shaped Modern X Chromosomes

Science Study Finds Neandertal–Human Pairings Skewed Toward Neandertal Men and Modern Women

Study Finds Prehistoric Pairings Favored Neanderthal Men and Human Women

Science Study Finds Neanderthal–Human Mating Skewed Toward Neanderthal Men and Human Women

NYU-Led Reanalysis Points to Bipedalism in 7-Million-Year-Old Sahelanthropus

Study Finds 'Little Foot' May Be an Undocumented Australopithecus Lineage

Altamura Neanderthal’s Nose Reconstruction Overturns Claimed Cold-Adaptation Traits

New Model Recasts Neanderthal 'Extinction' as Genetic Absorption Into Modern Humans

Rebuilt Million-Year-Old Skull Recasts Early Human Family Tree

140,000-Year-Old Skhul Child Shows Mixed Traits, Pointing to Early Human–Neanderthal Interbreeding

Neanderthals’ 125,000-Year-Old “Fat Factory” Confirmed as First Large-Scale Bone-Grease Operation

Spanish Pebble Yields 43,000-Year-Old Neanderthal Face Abstraction, Fingerprint

Precise Dating of Lapedo Child Sheds Light on Neanderthal-Human Interactions