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DNA from the ‘last Neanderthal’ rewrites our origin story

I have spent years covering discoveries that nudge our origin story around the edges, but the sequencing of DNA from one of ...
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Neanderthal skull bones suggest their noses weren’t for warming air

Neanderthals have long been portrayed as cold-adapted Ice Age specialists, their broad faces and big noses cast as natural ...
Greek Reporter

First Intact Neanderthal Skull Reveals Surprising Truth About Facial Traits

An analysis of Neanderthal nose bones suggests the species’ famously large noses did not evolve primarily to warm and ...
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The Most Intact Neanderthal Ever Found Reveals Their Big Noses Weren’t Built for the Cold

“It’s probably the most complete human fossil ever discovered,” Costantino Buzi of the University of Perugia told New ...
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Bones of ancient child suggest humans could have interbred with Neanderthals earlier than thought

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Modern humans and Neanderthals were interacting 100,000 years earlier than previously thought, according to researchers who used CT scans and 3D mapping to study the bones of a ...
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Homo neanderthalensis

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.