News tagged with neanderthal extinction

Study shows competition, not climate change, led to Neanderthal extinction

Dec 29, 2008 | 4.6 / 5 (10) | 4

In a recently conducted study, a multidisciplinary French-American research team with expertise in archaeology, past climates, and ecology reported that Neanderthal extinction was principally a result of competition with ...

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Neanderthal extinction hypothesis offered

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May 01, 2007 | 3.5 / 5 (11) | 0

A Spanish study suggests climate changes might have caused the extinction of the Neanderthals on the Iberian Peninsula.

New evidence on the role of climate in Neanderthal extinction

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

Sep 12, 2007 | 4.2 / 5 (26) | 0

The mystery of what killed the Neanderthals has moved a step closer to resolution after an international study led by the University of Leeds has ruled out one of the competing theories – catastrophic climate change – as ...

Britain’s last Neanderthals were more sophisticated than we thought

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

Jun 23, 2008 | 4.4 / 5 (51) | 4

An archaeological excavation at a site near Pulborough, West Sussex, has thrown remarkable new light on the life of northern Europe’s last Neanderthals. It provides a snapshot of a thriving, developing population – rather ...

Neanderthal Lacked Anatomical Competitive Edge: Skeletal Remains Tell the Story

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

Jan 16, 2009 | 4.4 / 5 (13) | 20

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study of the skeletal fossils of Neanderthal and Early modern man suggest the lack of a "throwing arm" may have made the difference in human evolution. Researchers Jill A. Rhodes and ...

Did modern humans eat Neanderthals?

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

May 18, 2009 | 3.4 / 5 (15) | 7

Modern humans may have eaten Neanderthals, scientists report in the Journal of Anthropological Sciences this month.

Study confirms 3 Neanderthal sub-groups

Biology / Evolution

Apr 15, 2009 | 4.7 / 5 (6) | 1

The Neanderthals inhabited a vast geographical area extending from Europe to western Asia and the Middle East 30,000 to 100,000 years ago. Now, a group of researchers are questioning whether or not the Neanderthals ...

Daily grind: Fossil molars add to Neanderthal debate

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Nov 22, 2006 | 4.4 / 5 (29) | 0

Palaeontologists have fired a new round in a verbal battle over the Neanderthals, the hominids who were our closest evolutionary cousins before they met a strange and possibly tragic end.

'You will give birth in pain': Neanderthals too

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Apr 21, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (11) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from the University of California at Davis (USA) and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig (Germany) present a virtual reconstruction of a female Neanderthal ...

Researchers Probe Links Between Modern Humans and Neanderthals

Biology / Evolution

Sep 19, 2009 | 4.6 / 5 (19) | 6

Which genes make us uniquely human? Scientists are looking at DNA in old bones to find out. The focus now is not so much on our own species, Homo sapiens. Instead, scientists are probing DNA in well-preserved pieces ...