Neanderthal extinction not caused by brutal wipe out - BBC
Feb 9, 2022 · Neanderthals were a separate species of human that populated Europe for hundreds of thousands of years until they went extinct 40,000 years ago. New fossils are challenging ideas that modern...
Did we kill the Neanderthals? New research may finally answer an …
Oct 4, 2024 · About 37,000 years ago, Neanderthals clustered in small groups in what is now southern Spain. Their lives may have been transformed by the eruption of the Phlegraean Fields in Italy a few...
How did Neanderthals disappear? New DNA analysis sheds light …
Jul 31, 2024 · The study found that humans left Africa, encountered and interbred with Neanderthals in three waves: One about 200,000 to 250,000 years ago, not long after the very first Homo sapiens fossils...
The Neanderthals may have become extinct because of their …
Sep 12, 2024 · Neanderthal remains recently discovered in a cave in France support well-known theory of why the Neanderthals became extinct, researchers behind a new study say.
Face of 75,000-year-old Neanderthal woman revealed - BBC
May 1, 2024 · Scientists have produced a remarkable reconstruction of what a Neanderthal woman would have looked like when she was alive.
Scientists may have untangled a mystery of Neanderthal ancestry - CNN
Oct 19, 2023 · CNN — A new analysis of ancient genomes is deepening scientists’ understanding of the Neanderthal DNA carried by human populations in Europe and Asia — genetic traces that may have medical...
Neanderthal extinction may have been caused by sex, not fighting
Oct 31, 2022 · A new paper proposes that Homo sapiens may have been responsible for the extinction of Neanderthals not by violence, but through sex instead. Making love, not war, might have put the Neanderthals on a path to extinction.
We carry DNA from extinct cousins like Neanderthals. Science is …
Sep 27, 2023 · One study found that people who report feeling more pain than others are likely to carry a Neanderthal pain receptor. Another found that a third of women in Europe inherited a Neanderthal receptor for the hormone progesterone, which is associated with increased fertility and fewer miscarriages.
Neanderthals - BBC News
Jun 21, 2022 · Neanderthal remains unearthed in Italian cave. Researchers believe the nine unlucky individuals may have been hunted and killed by hyenas. All the latest content about Neanderthals from the BBC.
These Neanderthal fire pits offer an extraordinarily precise …
Jun 5, 2024 · More than 50,000 years ago, Neanderthals passed through a rugged river valley in Spain, leaving behind stone tools, animal bones and dozens of fire pits (and the world’s oldest-known fossil of...