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If authentic, it predates similar discoveries by at least 6,000 years. Researchers found triangular “micropoints” matching primitive arrows in Uzbekistan’s Obi-Rakhmat rock shelter which predates ...

I have spent years covering discoveries that nudge our origin story around the edges, but the sequencing of DNA from one of the very last Neanderthals does something different: it rewrites the center ...

The discovery of Neanderthal remains sparked a wave of curiosity about these ancient relatives. What set them apart? What traits did they share with us? Did early humans live alongside them peacefully ...

The basic outline of the interactions between modern humans and Neanderthals is now well established. The two came in contact as modern humans began their major expansion out of Africa, which occurred ...

Neanderthals may not have truly gone extinct but instead may have been absorbed into the modern human population. That's one of the implications of a new study, which finds modern human DNA may have ...

A fossil Neanderthal named for a Tolkien character indicates that geographically close groups of the ancient humans didn't mess with each other. Reading time 2 minutes A Neanderthal dubbed Thorin just ...

The Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis) fascinate researchers and the general public alike. They remain central to debates about the nature of the genus Homo (the broad biological classification that ...

Jenny Graves is a Friend of The Conversation. Neanderthals, the closest cousins of modern humans, lived in parts of Europe and Asia until their extinction some 30,000 years ago. Genetic studies are ...