Tiny skeleton from Indonesia’s Flores island is unique ancient species, insist researchers
Neanderthals were not less intelligent than modern humans, scientists find
Researchers say there is no evidence that modern humans’ cognitive superiority led to demise of Neanderthals
Is pampered humanity getting steadily less intelligent?
Humans reached a peak of intelligence more than 2,000 years ago and it’s been downhill ever since, a scientist speculates
Study casts doubt on human-Neanderthal interbreeding theory
Cambridge scientists claim DNA overlap between Neanderthals and modern humans is a remnant of a common ancestor
Neanderthals may have been first human species to create cave paintings
Estimates of the age of cave paintings in northern Spain could be the final nail in the coffin of the ‘dumb Neanderthals’ myth
Scientists are accused of distorting theory of human evolution by misdating bones
Briton says Spanish researchers are out by 200,000 years and have even got the wrong species