A study of the inner ear bones of Neanderthals shows a significant loss of diversity in their shape around 110,000 years ago, ...

Drastic climatic changes likely had profound impacts on the genetic and morphological variability of the Neanderthal lineage.

The climate and early human societies were changing quickly during the fall of our closest evolutionary relative—and are big ...

The extinction of the Neanderthals is one of the most intriguing mysteries in paleoanthropology, with researchers speculating ...

A recent study compared features of Neanderthals' inner ears across space and time to extrapolate what happened to them tens ...

Sealed in a cave for tens of thousands of years, long before modern humans, us homo sapiens, arrived in Europe, Neanderthals ...

For thousands of years, Neanderthals flourished across Eurasia. But new research suggests their genetic diversity plummeted ...

Neanderthals lost genetic diversity around 110,000 years ago. Researchers confirmed this by studying fossilized inner ears.

The Gila monster, found primarily in the American Southwest and Mexico, is one of them. Gastroenterologist Jean-Pierre ...

University of Tokyo researchers have investigated the origin and dispersal scenarios of Homo sapiens into East Eurasia. The ...

The scientists identified the bottleneck by analyzing changes in the shape of the Neanderthal inner ear over time. When they analyzed the inner ears of Neanderthal skulls, they discovered that ...