Recreation of the appearance in life of a Neanderthal man at the Natural History Museum in London. Credit: Michael Brace / Flickr A recent study on the anatomy of the inner ear of Neanderthals and ...

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including our Neanderthal cousins. This suggests that FOXP2 plays a more general role in communication and that its human version has been co-opted to serve the specific needs of articulated language.

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Neanderthals' anatomy allowed them to thrive in a variety of climates, not just the cold, researchers have found by studying the remains of two exceptionally preserved individuals. A study by the ...

Modern humans have long been known to possess numerous adaptations in their anatomy and nervous system that enable ... but evidence suggests Neanderthals also possessed the same FOXP2 variant – ...

Neanderthals emerged around 250.000 years ago from European populations—referred to as "pre-Neanderthals"—which inhabited the Eurasian continent between 500.000 and 250.000 years ago. It was ...