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The latest research on a Neanderthal infant from Amud Cave in Israel is giving a clearer picture of how different early development may have been in o.

Analysis of the “Amud 7” infant from Amud Cave reveals Neanderthals grew significantly faster than modern humans, with a ...

For years, the standard story went like this: a single band of modern humans walked out of Africa roughly 60,000 years ago, ...

Genomic evidence supports the idea that Neanderthals lived in smaller populations than ancient Sapiens in Europe. Some ...

From ice-age hunters to our closest extinct relatives, this essential guide uncovers who the Neanderthals really were — and what they reveal about us.

Ancient DNA from a rare Neanderthal fetus, known from only 12 fragmented bones, provided insight into an earlier evolutionary branch and helped researchers trace a massive population crash that ...

This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. Among the many other human species that once inhabited ...

In the backrooms of the sleek, modern Schöningen Research Museum in Germany, there are piles of old, mismatched cardboard boxes everywhere. These are the finds boxes from Lehringen, a hamlet 150 ...

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