Neanderthal skull discovered in 1908 in France. (Luna04/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 3.0) In 1857, the German anatomist Hermann ...
They're regularly depicted as primitive and brutish - but Neanderthals were just as smart as humans, according to a study.
The cognitive differences between Neanderthals and humans were smaller than those between different present-day populations.
A latest study utilizing advanced spatial modeling has revealed that neither climate change nor direct competition with early modern humans can fully explain the disappearance of Neanderthals from ...