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Neanderthal remains recovered from a cave in France have been named 'Thorin' after a character from J.R.R. Tolkien's book The ...

An analysis of around a dozen teenagers who lived during the Paleolithic reveals that they hit puberty around the same time ...

The prevailing narrative of how humanity came about seemed straightforward enough: in Europe, the last Neanderthals bowed out as Homo sapiens began arriving on the continent around 40,000 to 45,000 ...

How we do research matters just as much as what we do. Understanding something as complex as human evolution in Africa ...

sapiens is the Omo Kibish 1 skeleton from Ethiopia, [which is] about 230,000 years old." This fossil skull has a tall, globe-shaped head and a human-like chin, which has led researchers to call it the ...

One of the "last" Neanderthal individuals has been found in a cave in France, revealing a previously unknown lineage.

Thorin — nicknamed after a dwarf in J. R. R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit" — is also called the "last Neanderthal" because he may ...

AN ancient lineage of humans’ closest relatives has been unearthed in France – and scientists say the discovery is a world-first. A fossilized Neanderthal was discovered in a cave ...

The prevailing narrative of how humanity came about seemed straightforward enough: in Europe, the last Neanderthals bowed out ...

In 1931, geologists excavated skull fragments from a fossil bed along the Solo River in Java ... alongside modern humans on the island of Java. Read More: When Did Homo Sapiens First Appear? The ...

Neanderthals had an asymmetric humerus in contrast to Homo sapiens, whose humerus is symmetric. Likewise they had differently shaped skulls, the Neanderthals’ being bigger. As a consequence, they also ...