Neanderthals: More knowable now than ever
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
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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
A new study presented to the Royal Society meeting on ancient DNA in London last week has revealed a dramatic finding – the genome of one of our ancient ancestors, the Denisovans, contains a segment o
Dr. Berhane Asfaw's excavation in Ethiopia's Afar Triangle unveiled the Herto Man, challenging the human evolution narrative through 160,000-year-old fossils.
A new study argues that there is little reason to focus on finding a single point in time and space during which modern human ancestry originated.
Revolutionary study suggests Neanderthals are not distinct from humans. Read how this changes our understanding of human evolution.