Researchers suggest that Neanderthals didn't go "extinct" because they were unfit for their environment. They may have been so successful that they became hybridized with early humans.
Researchers shed new light on the long-debated extinction of Neanderthals and the cultural and biological evolution of hominin groups during the last Ice Age.
CT scans of fossil skulls may help researchers settle a classic puzzle about the evolution of Africa’s Australopithecus, a key ancestor of modern humans.