Specialists say that the brains of Homo neanderthalensis and Homo sapiens were similar. But slight differences in the structure and development of the two species' brains could've changed the ways ...

The Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis) fascinate researchers and the general public alike. They remain central to debates about the nature of the genus Homo (the broad biological classification that ...

The old man of La Chapelle Discovered in 1908, the skeleton of ""the old man of La Chapelle"" was the first relatively complete skeleton of a Neanderthal individual that scientists had ever found.

Renaud Joannes-Boyau receives funding from the Australian Research Council. The evolution of diet is intimately linked to human evolution: from the use of tools to break nuts, collect insects or hunt ...

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