A study of the inner ear bones of Neanderthals shows a significant loss of diversity in their shape around 110,000 years ago, suggesting a genetic bottleneck that contributed to Neanderthals' decline.

The first-ever published research out of Tinshemet Cave indicates the two human species regularly interacted and shared ...

The climate and early human societies were changing quickly during the fall of our closest evolutionary relative—and are big clues to the causes of their demise.

Advanced radiocarbon dating has provided the most accurate age assessment yet for the “Lapedo Child,” one of the most ...

The remains of the Lapedo Child, found in Portugal in 1998, showed signs of being both Neanderthal and human, as later confirmed by DNA. New techniques in radiocarbon dating allowed scientists to ...

The first-ever published research on Tinshemet Cave reveals that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens in the mid-Middle Paleolithic ...

Scientists have successfully dated the remains of the Lapedo Child, which possesses a "mosaic" of Human and Neanderthal ...

Neanderthal genetic diversity dropped 110,000 years ago CT scans of inner ear bones show a major bottleneck event Reduced diversity may have weakened their survival chances ...

Life appearance reconstruction of a Neanderthal male at the Natural History Museum of London. (Credit: Photo: Allan Henderson under CC BY 2.0) Ears are incredible things. They help us process sound ...

For example, the child’s lower limbs were much shorter than those of a modern human, and more resembled a Neanderthal. The skull, however, almost fully mirrored a Homo sapien, particularly the ...