After thriving for hundreds of thousands of years, Neanderthals disappeared from Eurasia some 40,000 years ago. Today, their ...

A study of the inner ear bones of Neanderthals shows a significant loss of diversity in their shape around 110,000 years ago, ...

Neanderthals Likely Went Extinct as They Lost Their Genetic Diversity Over Time, Being Racially Exclusive For over 250,000 ...

A recent study compared features of Neanderthals' inner ears across space and time to extrapolate what happened to them tens ...

A new study by an international team of scholars, including faculty at Binghamton University, State University of New York, ...

The extinction of the Neanderthals is one of the most intriguing mysteries in paleoanthropology, with researchers speculating ...

Neanderthals lost genetic diversity around 110,000 years ago. Researchers confirmed this by studying fossilized inner ears.

New research on the inner ear morphology of Neanderthals and their ancestors challenges the widely accepted theory that ...

Learn how researchers analyzed Neanderthals’ inner ears to understand their genetic history.

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.

Groundbreaking research finds that Neanderthals experienced a severe population crash 110,000 years ago, challenging past ...

Technically known as a "bottleneck," this genetic loss is frequently the consequence of a reduction in the number of individuals of a population. The ancient DNA data indicate that the decline in ...