News articles tagged with 'Neanderthal'
Archeologists investigate Ice Age hominins' adaptability to climate change
— 17 Nov 2011 17:40 | Geology and palaeontologyComputational modelling that examines evidence of how hominin groups evolved culturally and biologically in response to climate change during the last Ice Age also bears new insights…
Neanderthals were nifty at controlling fire, says CU-Boulder-led study
— 15 Mar 2011 19:47 | Geology and palaeontologyA new study involving the University of Colorado Boulder shows clear evidence of the continuous control of fire by Neanderthals in Europe dating back roughly 400,000 years, yet another…
Ancient teeth raise new questions about the origins of modern man
— 10 Feb 2011 18:40 | Geology and palaeontologyEight small teeth found in a cave near Rosh Haain, central Israel, are raising big questions about the earliest existence of humans and where we may have originated, says Binghamton…
Longevity unlikely to have aided early modern humans
— 11 Jan 2011 18:20 | Geology and palaeontologyLife expectancy was probably the same for early modern and late archaic humans and did not factor in the extinction of Neanderthals, suggests a new study by a Washington University…
Genome of extinct Siberian cave-dweller linked to modern-day humans
— 4 Jan 2011 21:17 | Geology and palaeontologyResearchers have discovered evidence of a distinct group of 'archaic' humans existing outside of Africa more than 30,000 years ago at a time when Neanderthals are thought to have dominated…
Genome of extinct Siberian human sheds new light on modern human origins
— 4 Jan 2011 20:50 | Geology and palaeontologyThe sequencing of the nuclear genome from an ancient finger bone found in a Siberian cave shows that the cave dwellers were neither Neanderthals nor modern humans…
Fossil finger bone yields genome of a previously unknown human relative
— 4 Jan 2011 20:35 | Geology and palaeontologyA 30,000-year-old finger bone found in a cave in southern Siberia came from a young girl who was neither an early modern human nor a Neanderthal, but belonged to a previously unknown…
Synchrotron reveals human children outpaced Neanderthals by slowing down
— 16 Nov 2010 11:24 | Geology and palaeontologyHuman childhood is considerably longer than chimpanzees, our closest-living ape relatives. A multinational team of specialists, led by researchers from Harvard University, Max-Planck…
The brains of Neanderthals and modern humans developed differently
— 10 Nov 2010 15:01 | Geology and palaeontologyWhether cognitive differences exist between modern humans and Neanderthals is the subject of contentious disputes in anthropology and archaeology. Because the brain size range of modern…
Differences in human and Neanderthal brains set in just after birth
— 9 Nov 2010 11:34 | HealthThe brains of newborn humans and Neanderthals are about the same size and appear rather similar overall. It's mainly after birth, and specifically in the first year of life, that the…