Neanderthals

Researchers examined the ear canals of ancient humans, including early modern humans and Neanderthals, finding abnormal bony growths were common among Neanderthals.

Campi Flegrei has even been credited with pushing the Neanderthals towards extinction too, around 39,000 years ago – although this is not definite fact.

Early risers may have inherited genetic variants from Neanderthals that increased their odds of being morning rather than evening people, new research has found.

Neanderthals were our stocky, barrel-chested, big-browed cousins.

The researchers compared claws to identify the crabs eaten by Neanderthals and work out how big the crabs were.

The work builds upon genetic discoveries in the past decade, including when scientists uncovered that modern humans and Neanderthals interbred as early humans moved out of Africa.

But some of the remains in Shanidar Cave are thousands of years apart in the fossil record, indicating that the shelter was used by generations of Neanderthals.

One immune gene variant inherited from Neanderthals confers protective effects on coronavirus that causes COVID-19, for example.

One specific part of Neanderthal DNA significantly increases a person’s risk of nicotine addiction - which is ironic given that Neanderthals were in Europe 40 millennia before tobacco first arrived.

Paleozoologists still wrestle with outdated conceptions of brutish Neanderthals.

The tools, according to the team of Tristan Carter of McMaster University, demonstrate that somehow, both Neanderthals and early humans found a way to reach this island—and subsequently stayed in the region for some time.

Were Neanderthals cold-adapted or were they just ready for anything?

While the techniques Neanderthals used to extract tar have been previously back-engineered to suggest the use of underground fire pits, direct evidence of these pits has been missing from the record.

A handful of fossils and tools unearthed in a Bulgarian cave suggest modern humans were present in Europe some 46,000 years ago -- and they likely interacted with Neanderthals for longer than previously thought.

Denisovans, a group of extinct hominins that diverged from Neanderthals about 400,000 years ago, may have more widely inhabited northeast central Asia than scientists previously thought.

It now seems likely that Neanderthals buried their dead with the concept of an afterlife in mind.

I wish I knew what the Neanderthals and Denisovans really looked like.

On migrating from Africa around 70,000 years ago, humans bumped into the neanderthals of Eurasia.

Since being identified more than 160 years ago, Neanderthals have often been presented as dimwitted, barely a step up from our ape ancestors.

The biggest thing in Happiest Toddler is that toddlers aren’t children, they’re neanderthals.