For much of the early 20th century, Neanderthal behaviour was depicted as primitive, unintelligent, and brutish; unevolved compared to their modern human...

Neanderthal extinction Neanderthals became extinct around 40,000 years ago. Hypotheses on the causes of the extinction include violence, transmission...

Neanderthals (/niˈændərˌtɑːl, neɪ-, -ˌθɑːl/ nee-AN-də(r)-TAHL, nay-, -⁠THAHL; Homo neanderthalensis or H. sapiens neanderthalensis) are an extinct group...

Neanderthal anatomy is characterised by a long, flat skull and a stocky body plan. When first discovered, Neanderthals were thought to be anatomically...

The interbreeding happened in several independent events that included Neanderthals and Denisovans, as well as several unidentified hominins. In Europe,...

Neanderthal genetics testing became possible in the 1990s with advances in ancient DNA analysis. In 2008, the Neanderthal genome project published the...

relative to Neanderthals, Denisovans, and other archaic humans. Debate continues as to whether anatomically modern humans were behaviorally modern as well...

to replace other Homo species such as the Neanderthals and Homo erectus. The earliest evidence of behavioral modernity first appears during the Middle...

this has not been substantiated. Because Neanderthal remains coexist with artifacts showing complex behavior, such as personal ornaments, it has been...

of a Neanderthal musical instrument, and such a find from the Middle Paleolithic (Mousterian) might indicate previously unknown symbolic behavior among...

president René Fasel has protested against fighting, deeming it "Neanderthal behavior". Wayne Gretzky, considered by many to be the greatest hockey player...

modern humans (AMH) and Neanderthal specimens, many relating to the superior Neanderthal adaptation to cold environments. Neanderthal surface to volume ratio...

coincides with the disappearance of archaic humans such as the Neanderthals. The term "behavioral modernity" is somewhat disputed. It is most often used for...

close affinities with Neanderthals. The cave was also periodically inhabited by Neanderthals, but it is unclear whether Neanderthals and Denisovans ever...

Feldhofer 1 or Neanderthal 1 is the scientific name of the 40,000-year-old type specimen fossil of the species Homo neanderthalensis. The fossil was discovered...

Strategies in Level J of Abric Romaní", High Resolution Archaeology and Neanderthal Behavior, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, pp. 313–372, doi:10.1007/978-94-007-3922-2_8...

humans. Microwear analysis of the Mousterian stone tools used by the Neanderthals show that many were used to work wood. The development of civilization...

recent breakthroughs in the understanding of modern human origins and Neanderthal behavior. Her recent work on the fossil human remains from Apidima Cave, Southern...

of straight-tusked elephants 125.000 years ago: Implications for Neanderthal behavior". Science Advances. 9 (5): eadd8186. Bibcode:2023SciA....9D8186G...

of straight-tusked elephants 125.000 years ago: Implications for Neanderthal behavior". Science Advances. 9 (5): eadd8186. Bibcode:2023SciA....9D8186G...

humans, with important implications for Neanderthal behavior. This dating, and the possibility of Neanderthal cave art, is disputed on the physical-chemical...

C (2014). "Symbolic or utilitarian? Juggling interpretations of Neanderthal behavior: new inferences from the study of engraved stone surfaces". J Anthropol...

Ripoll, M. P.; Carrión, Y. M.; Duarte, E. & de la Rasilla, M. (2019). "Neanderthal and carnivore activities at Llonin Cave, Asturias, northern Iberian Peninsula:...

patrilocal residence when used by the Anthropology) has also been found among Neanderthal remains in Spain and in remains of Australopithecus and Paranthropus...

of straight-tusked elephants 125.000 years ago: Implications for Neanderthal behavior". Science Advances. 9 (5): eadd8186. Bibcode:2023SciA....9D8186G...

Southwest Asian Neanderthals were Neanderthals who lived in Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, Israel, Palestine, Iraq, and Iran - the southernmost expanse of the...

dispersal attempts by early Homo sapiens, who were likely replaced by local Neanderthal populations. The migrating modern human populations are known to have...

La Chapelle-aux-Saints 1 ("The Old Man") is an almost-complete male Neanderthal skeleton discovered in La Chapelle-aux-Saints, France by A. and J. Bouyssonie...

The Neanderthal Man is a 78-minute, 1953 American black-and-white science fiction film produced independently by Aubrey Wisberg and Jack Pollexfen, as...

et al. (September 2019). "Birch tar production does not prove Neanderthal behavioral complexity". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of...