Jun 7, 2013 by News Staff

The first definitive case of a fibrous dysplastic neoplasm in a 120,000-year-old Neanderthal rib from the site of Krapina in present-day Croatia reveals...

May 24, 2013 by News Staff

Scientists led by Dr Manish Arora from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have reported that they can now use fossil teeth to calculate when a...

Feb 8, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

According to a research published in the open access journal PLoS ONE, a 400k year old fragment of human lower jaw recovered from a Serbian cave is the...

Feb 5, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new research led by Spanish scientists casts doubt on the widely accepted theory that the last Neanderthals persisted in southern Iberia, Spain, at the...

Oct 5, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

A team of Harvard and Max Planck Institute researchers has estimated the date when Neanderthals and modern Europeans last shared ancestors to explore why...

Sep 12, 2012 by News Staff

An international team of researchers has completed the first sequencing of the Denisovan genome, shedding light on the relationships between these archaic...

Aug 14, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

Cambridge researchers have raised questions about the theory that Neanderthals and modern humans at some point interbred. Their findings show that common...

Jul 19, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

Scientists have discovered the first molecular evidence that Neanderthals not only ate a range of cooked plant foods, but also understood its nutritional...

Jun 15, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

The practice of cave art in Europe began up to 10,000 years earlier than previously thought, a new uranium-series dating study has revealed. The study...

Jun 6, 2012 by News Staff

The reconstruction of human limb bones found in Atapuerca, Spain, has helped scientists to determine the height of the human species Homo heidelbergensis. The...