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Neanderthals

New Studies Challenge Idea That Smarter Humans Drove Neanderthals to Extinction

The findings shift the cause toward population forces over brain power.

Study Finds Prehistoric Pairings Favored Neanderthal Men and Human Women

Study Traces Kissing to Ape Ancestors 21 Million Years Ago, With Neanderthals Likely Kissers

New Model Recasts Neanderthal 'Extinction' as Genetic Absorption Into Modern Humans

Skhūl Child Fossil Shows Mixed Human–Neanderthal Traits, Pushing Interbreeding to 140,000 Years Ago

140,000-Year-Old Skhul Child Shows Mixed Traits, Pointing to Early Human–Neanderthal Interbreeding