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New Studies Challenge Idea That Smarter Humans Drove Neanderthals to Extinction

The findings shift the cause toward population forces over brain power.

Prolonged Drought Tied to ‘Hobbit’ Disappearance on Flores, New Study Finds

Ancient DNA From Southern Africa Reveals Long-Isolated Homo Sapiens Lineage

Skhūl Child Fossil Shows Mixed Human–Neanderthal Traits, Pushing Interbreeding to 140,000 Years Ago

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

Humans Developed Ecological Flexibility in Africa Before Migrating Into Eurasia