Neanderthal population, a species that thrived in Eurasia for over 250,000 years, experienced a dramatic decline in genetic diversity around 110,000 years ago. Recent studies indicate that this ...

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After thriving for hundreds of thousands of years, Neanderthals disappeared from Eurasia some 40,000 years ago. Today, their legacy lives on only fragments of their DNA embedded in the genomes of ...

A study of the inner ear bones of Neanderthals shows a significant loss of diversity in their shape around 110,000 years ago, suggesting a genetic bottleneck that contributed to Neanderthals' decline.

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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 ...

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 ...

Neanderthals emerged about 250,000 years ago from European populations—referred to as "pre-Neanderthals"—that inhabited the Eurasian continent between 500,000 and 250,000 years ago.