A remarkable discovery of 16 bones in Germany's Neander Valley in 1856 challenged prevailing scientific beliefs about human origins. Initially thought to be ancient humans, these remains were later ...

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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.

Significant brain defects known as Chiari malformations could be down the genes some of us have inherited from Neanderthals, according to a new study, causing a mismatch between brain shape and skull ...

The Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis) fascinate researchers and the general public alike. They remain central to debates about the nature of the genus Homo (the broad biological classification that ...