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Protein Analysis Shows All Sampled Homo Naledi Remains Are Female

This finding could signal sex-specific mortuary use by H. naledi or reflect a population-level loss of the Y-linked amelogenin gene.

Study Finds Healthy, Connected Neanderthals in Northwestern Europe Before Extinction

Major Hominin Body‑Size Jump Identified Around 2 Million Years Ago

New Evidence Suggests Hominins Used Fire in Wonderwerk Cave 1.07–1.8 Million Years Ago

New Studies Challenge Idea That Smarter Humans Drove Neanderthals to Extinction

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

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

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