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Finger marks on cave walls are among the earliest Neanderthal art

Symbols have been found carved on the walls of a cave in France that was inhabited by Neanderthals before being sealed off at least 57,000 years ago

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Ancient bacteria genome reconstructed from Neanderthal tooth gunk

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Getting up in the morning

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Early risers may have inherited faster body clocks from Neanderthals

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Straight-tusked elephant bones hint at routine hunting and butchering by Neanderthals

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Neanderthals hunted enormous elephants that fed 100 people for a month

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A recreation of a Neanderthal man

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Antibiotics encoded in Neanderthal DNA could help us fight infections

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Chagyrskaya Cave in Siberia

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Neanderthal family life revealed by ancient DNA from Siberian cave

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Bisonte Magdaleniense pol?cromo

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When did humans start making art and were Neanderthals artists too?

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Excavation of a 125,000-year-old archaeological site at Neumark-Nord 2 near Halle, Germany, summer 2007. The excavation of this specific lake shore site, well-preserved in fine-grained water laid deposits, yielded the cut-marked remains of hundreds of large mammals, mainly horses and bovids, and about 20,000 stone artefacts.

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Neanderthals may have cleared a European forest with fire or tools

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Upper central deciduous incisor

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Neanderthals may have grown their baby teeth faster than we do

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Ground with fossilised footprint

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Prehistoric elephant nursery probably made easy prey for Neanderthals

Fossil footprints reveal that the extinct straight-tusked elephant raised its young with groups of adult females and no adult males, just as modern elephants do – and that they were probably hunted by Neanderthals

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Just 1.5 to 7 per cent of the modern human genome is uniquely ours

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The World Before Us review: A gripping account of Earth's other humans

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Neanderthal ears were tuned to hear speech just like modern humans

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We are in the midst of rewriting our understanding of Neanderthals

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