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The last Ice Age proved to be a decisive period for the cave-dwelling Neanderthals ... not compete in the face of a slow invasion from our most recent ancestor, Cro-Magnon man.

From a flaky skull, found “as flat as a pizza” on a cave floor in northern Iraq, the face of ... of the Neanderthal first created in 1908 after the discovery of the “old man of La Chapelle”.

Neanderthal blood types may have made them ill-equipped to deal with infectious diseases.

As visitors wander among the fossils, tools and other artefacts in the gallery, two standout characters put a human face to the last phase of our epic evolutionary journey. Staring into the twinkling ...

A PRELIMINARY account of the discovery of skeletal remains of Neanderthal man in Central Asia is given by Dr. Aleš Hrdlička through the Smithsonian Institution of Washington. The remains—the ...

Palaeo-anthropologist Dr Emma Pomeroy describes the main features of Shanidar Z, a Neanderthal skull from a female who died 75,000 years ago in what is now Iraqi Kurdistan. Read more: Face of ...