Neanderthals were consummate hunters of medium ... The meaning of a symbol is shared by a group of people, or a culture. Language is symbolic in nature, because most words do not resemble their ...

That year Svante Pääbo revealed the first genome of a Neanderthal, the species closest to ours, and confirmed that tens of ...

Neanderthals were a separate species of human ... Many ideas have been put forward by scientists: our capacity to produce art, language and possibly a better brain. But Prof Stringer believes ...

The origin of humanity can be summarized as a long story of hybridization and migrations. The more data we have about the ...

but while Neanderthals clearly differed genetically from modern humans, research indicates that in every singular aspect, they were also human themselves. They used language, created art and tools ...

Find out if you're part Neanderthal, about the evolution of laughter, what language may owe to tool-making, and more. (Program not available for streaming.) Scientists have struggled for ...