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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.

Yunxian Homo Erectus Skulls Re-Dated to About 1.77 Million Years

First Afar Paranthropus Fossil Pushes Genus’ Range 1,000 Kilometers North

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

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

First Paranthropus Boisei Hand Reveals Human-Like Dexterity With Gorilla-Like Power

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

Rebuilt Million-Year-Old Chinese Skull Tied to Denisovan-Linked Lineage, Pushing Homo Splits Earlier

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

Fossil Teeth in Ethiopia Point to Oldest Homo and a Possible New Australopithecus

Most Primate Societies Lack Fixed Sex-Based Dominance