Our Belgian Neanderthal is in his twenties and stands 155cm tall The other gentleman in the gallery is a model of an early modern human living around 30,000 years ago, referred to by some scientists ...

University of Wollongong researchers have experimentally confirmed that changes in hammer strike angle significantly affect ...

The discovery of Neanderthal remains sparked a wave of curiosity about these ancient relatives. What set them apart? What ...

Early Neanderthals were taller on average than later Neanderthals, but their weight was about the same. Model of a Homo neanderthalensis skeleton (front and back views). Neanderthals had stocky ...

A. The Neanderthal Legacy: An Archaeological Perspective from Western Europe. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996. Mellars, P. A. The impossible coincidence. A single-species model for ...

The assimilation model, modern human origins in Europe, and the extinction of Neandertals. Quaternary International 137, 7-19 (2005). Stewart, J. R. The ecology and adaptation of Neanderthals ...

It’s also evidence that Neanderthals figured out how to shape bone into smooth, aerodynamic projectiles on their own, without needing to copy those upstart Homo sapiens. Along with the bone ...

LONGTAN, CHINA—CNN reports that stone tools synonymous with Neanderthals were discovered at the Longtan site in southwest China's Yunnan Province—but no Neanderthal is thought to have ever ...

Neanderthals, modern humans’ closest evolutionary relatives, have been extinct for thousands of years. But due to interbreeding between the two groups around 55,000 years ago, remnants of our ...