To accompany Elizabeth Kolbert’s article on Svante Pääbo’s quest to sequence the Neanderthal genome, I was delighted to find the wonderful, and …

Thanks to Tom Björklund for his art. Source: by cultureshock

The face of Neanderthal on the cover of this issue of Answers was sculpted and designed over a plaster cast of an actual Neanderthal skull.

Thanks to Tom Björklund for his art. Source: by cultureshock

Back in July of last year, we brought you a transcription and a couple of audio interpretations of the oldest known song in the world, discovered in the ancient Syrian city of Ugarit and dating back to the 14th century B.C.E..

With her long, brown hair and determined gaze, the new facial reconstruction lets us peek into the world of an archaic human who lived tens of thousands of years ago.

For Elisabeth Daynès, sculpting ancient humans and their ancestors is both an art and a science

A study of genomes from more than 27,000 people in Iceland reveals new insights about Neanderthals and a mysterious ancient human species called Denisovans.

The Filipino ethnic group known as the Ayta Magbukon have the highest level of Denisovan ancestry today, report experts at Uppsala University in Sweden.

Humans have many half-Neanderthal, half-human ancestors. But none of those ancestors passed us Neanderthal Y-chromosomes. Now scientists think they know why.

Neanderthals are generally classified by palaeontologists as the species Homo neanderthalensis, but some consider them to be a subspecies of Homo sapiens (Homo sapiens neanderthalensis). The first humans with proto-Neanderthal traits are believed to have existed in Europe as early as 600,000–350,000 years ago, and they died out around 30,000 years ago.

Scientists at Leiden University and Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands say manganese dioxide rocks found at a Neanderthal site in France may have been used help light fires.

Neanderthal genome shows high levels of inbreeding

How do creationists explain the timing and location of early human remains from a biblical perspective?

A re-analysis of a 50,000 year old Neanderthal skull shows that, in addition to enduring multiple injuries and debilitations, this male individual was also profoundly deaf. Yet he lived well into his...

Once depicted as brutal, grunting, slouching sub-humans, Neanderthals are now known to have had brains as large as ours and their own distinct culture. They buried their dead, tended their sick and co-existed with our own ancestors in Europe for thousands of years before becoming extinct just as modern humans flourished and began to spread

above: Caveman Willem Dafoe While most sports fans will be busy watching large men grunt as they play the NFL Championship game tomorrow, I thought I'd introduce you to a different sort of Troglodyte today: the celebrity caveman. The following images are entries by various computer artists from six different Worth1000 Effects contests in which they were asked to combine Celebrities with Neanderthals using Photoshop and/or other effects software. Gene Hackman: George Clooney: Morgan Freeman: Tommy Lee Jones: Hugh Laurie: Snoop Lion: Kate Winslet: Nick Nolte: Al Pacino: Sean Connery: Robert deNiro: Daniel Craig: Harrison Ford: Shakira: Will Smith: Jake Gyllenhall: Tobey Maguire: Sean Penn: Danny Trejo: I chose the above twenty images from six different Celebrity Neanderthal Contests from the past three years on Worth1000, the most recent of which ended about 3 weeks ago. My selection was based on the executions or humor quotient. Several entries were poorly executed, some looked like trolls and still others like zombies. I chose what I personally felt were the 20 most entertaining. Please note: these images have been cropped for better visibility and therefore are missing the Worth1000 watermark. To see all of the original entries in the contests, visit the following links (there does not seem to be a 4th contest despite the numbered names): Celebrity Neaderthals 1 Celebrity Neaderthals 2 Celebrity Neaderthals 3 Celebrity Neanderthals 5 Celebrity Neaderthals 6 Celebrity Neaderthals 7 About Worth1000 Worth1000 is the top creative contest site in the world. Every day they run lots of creative competitions of all types, including Effects contests (otherwise known as photochop or photoshop contests), photography contests, illustration contests, writing contests and more forms of multimedia.