A Neanderthal skull shows head trauma, evidence of ancient violence.
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300,000 years ago, there were lots of different species of human. Now it’s only us – and we're probably the reason why.
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It's time we changed our stereotype of the brutish, thuggish Neanderthals, and instead start viewing them with the respect they really deserve.
New discovery has put some teeth into our understanding of human evolution.
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New find shows we may have been underestimating the Neanderthals.
Tom Higham and Katerina Douka uncover evidence that early humans and Neanderthals lived alongside each other for thousands of years.
Thomas Higham
A new study has dated the final days of the Neanderthals and found they lived at the same time as the earliest modern humans in Europe. Rather than seeing Neanderthals suddenly vanish at the time modern…