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DNA suggests modern humans and Neanderthals shared one culture for over 20,000 years

Two separate cave sites in the Levant now show that Neanderthals and modern humans used the same stone tools, hunted the same ...
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A Turkish cave shows Neanderthals and early humans lived side by side using the same tools

Stratified rock layers inside a cave in southern Turkiye have produced the strongest direct evidence to date that ...
Gizmodo

New Study Explores Why Some People Have So Much Neanderthal DNA

A sweeping analysis of European and Asian genomes over the last 40,000 years reveals when and how some genetic exchange occurred between Homo sapiens and our closest cousins, Homo neanderthalensis. It ...

Stunning DNA discovery is forcing scientists to rethink why Neanderthals disappeared

DNA recovered from remains in Belgium and France offers a very different picture of Neanderthal life during the species’ final millennia.

For decades, Neanderthals were thought to survive almost entirely on meat, but fossilised faeces and ancient bones tell a more complicated story

For decades, popular imagination has painted Neanderthals as pure carnivores, hulking hunters who survived almost entirely on ...
PBS

A look at the new discoveries that make Neanderthals more knowable now than ever

Neanderthals are Homo sapiens's closest-known relative, and today we know we rubbed shoulders with them for thousands of years, up until the very end of their long reign some 40,000 years ago. Most ...