Tag: Homo sapiens


July 22, 2009

Novel Techniques Suggest Neanderthal Populations Dwindled in the Face of Expanding Humans

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The Neanderthals have always held a special place in the field of anthropology.  The skeletal remains of our short, stocky evolutionary relatives have been found everywhere from Spain to Iraq. Their physical likeness to our own species, and the possibility that humans and Neanderthals may have interacted, [...]

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April 15, 2009

There’s More to Neanderthals than Meets the Eye

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Over the past decade, there has been no shortage of studies focused on the relationship between Neanderthals and our own species, Homo sapiens. Researchers have dug deep into the fossil record and our genomes to uncover how closely related we are to the Neanderthals, whether we interacted with them, and even [...]

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