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They have held our fascination ever since we first identified their remains. Today, thanks to new artifacts and technologies, findings about our closest relatives are coming thick and fast

Today, thanks to new artifacts and technologies, findings about our closest relatives are coming thick and fast

An anthropologist imagines a world in which Neanderthals—and their relationships with the environment and one another—survived evolution.

A new study of the dental plaques of three Neanderthals reveals surprising facts about their lives, including what they ate, the diseases that ailed them and how they self-medicated (and smooched).

Genetic and anatomical differences between us and extinct species such as Neanderthals made us more similar to domesticated animal species.

Archaeological records have proved throughout mankind’s history, cannibalism has been practiced for various reasons, including commemorating deceased loved ones.

One anthropologist contends that far too many species have been lumped into one category: Our story is more complicated, he argues.

There are many myths suggesting Neanderthals were primitive brutes, but science paints a completely different picture.

Milestones in evolution and history

The image above is obviously wrong, deliberately. So is the original by Michelangelo. God isnt a gorilla. God even isnt. Perusing through the scientific record, there is strong evidence that other species of sapiens have trodden the earth. There is a strong chance too that we, the sapiens of sapiens, managed to make them disappear with our rat-like breeding and our avaricious needs... Unless they vanished from lack of survival skills in changing habitats... unless they were wiped out by diseas...