Archaeology Neanderthals Disappeared from North West Europe Earlier Than Thought (Archeology) 14 Mar 2021 Neanderthal remains from Belgium are thousands of years older than previously reported, a new paper from a multidisciplinary team of international researchers reveals. Neanderthal remains from Belgium have long puzzled scientists. Fossil…
Archaeology Neanderthals and Homo sapiens used Identical Nubian Technology (Archeology) 15 Feb 2021 New analysis of a fossil tooth and stone tools from Shukbah Cave reveals Neanderthals used stone tool technologies thought to have been unique to modern humans Long held in a…
Paleontology How A Single Gene Alteration May Have Separated Modern Humans From Predecessors (Paleontology) 12 Feb 2021 Novel study used brain organoids genetically modified to mimic now-extinct Neanderthals As a professor of pediatrics and cellular and molecular medicine at University of California San Diego School of Medicine,…
Biology Neanderthals Gut Microbiota And The Bacteria Helping Our Health (Biology) 6 Feb 2021 Neanderthals' gut microbiota already included some beneficial micro-organisms that are also found in our own intestine. An international research group led by the University of Bologna achieved this result by…
Archaeology New Evidence: Neanderthals Buried Their Dead (Archeology) 10 Dec 2020 Was burial of the dead practiced by Neandertals or is it an innovation specific to our species? There are indications in favour of the first hypothesis but some scientists remain…
Archaeology Videoscope Analysis of a Neanderthal Skeleton Reveals Detailed Dental Information (Archeology) 3 Dec 2020 The Neanderthal specimen from Lamalunga Cave, near Altamura (Apulia, Italy), was discovered during a speleological survey in 1993. The specimen is one of the most complete fossil hominins in Europe…
Paleontology Climate Change Likely Drove Early Human Species To Extinction, Modeling Study Suggests (Paleontology) 15 Oct 2020 Of the six or more different species of early humans, all belonging to the genus Homo, only we Homo sapiens have managed to survive. Now, a study reported in the…
