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A new scientific study has uncovered disturbing evidence that Neanderthals at a cave site in present-day Belgium may have practiced selective cannibalism, mainly targeting women and children from ...

Neanderthals left behind various clues about their enigmatic lives. But less is known about their spiritual sides. Some archaeologists and anthropologists believe these early humans, who disappeared ...

If I asked you to imagine your dream snog, chances are it wouldn't be with a Neanderthal; burly and hirsute as they may be. However, my team's new research suggests that these squat beefcakes might ...

Copious evidence from the fossil record, spread across time and geography, shows that neanderthals ate each other. Scientists have discovered neanderthal bones that bear the same marks of butchery as ...

Two different human species meet tens of thousands of years ago. Modern humans, fresh from Africa, encounter their stockier, cold-adapted cousins in what is now Europe. Did this initial meeting lead ...

Researchers have identified gene-regulatory variants that might have contributed to Neanderthals’ beefy jaws — offering a window on how the human face developed 1. This ‘non-coding’ sequence controls ...

A new study led by the University of Oxford has found evidence that kissing evolved in the common ancestor of humans and other large apes around 21 million years ago, and that Neanderthals likely ...