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For decades, we've thought of our Neanderthal cousins as brutish, primitive beings. Second-class humans driven extinct by their own fallibility and stupidity. But as we are fast learning ...

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But, interbreeding would change the human genome, which likely continued until Neanderthals went extinct around 40,000 years ago. And even today humans are left with some Neanderthal genes, many of ...

And though it superficially resembled a Neanderthal tooth, remains of that species had never been definitively identified in East Asia. The scientists exchanged baffled looks: Who was the owner of ...

The new group will be led by Jay Parikh, Facebook's former head of engineering whom Nadella added to Microsoft's senior leadership team in October. Microsoft is forming the group as it anticipates ...

While the new studies have reinforced the idea of Neanderthal and Homo sapiens admixture in Europe, the picture in South Asia regarding interbreeding and Homo Sapiens’ relationship with Denisovans ...

Archaeologists in Turnov, located in the Czech Republic's Liberec Region, have uncovered the remains of an ancient Neanderthal hunter-gatherer settlement, offering a rare glimpse into the prehistoric ...

El Clasico is always a fiery affair. Lionel Messi (centre) and Sergio Ramos (right) go head-to-head. / AFLOSPORT/IMAGO Real Madrid versus Barcelona, best known as El Clásico, is the most famous ...