Neanderthal fossils show a major population drop 110,000 years ago. Researchers link this to reduced genetic diversity.

By comparing the shapes of the ear's semicircular canal in fossils from across Europe and western Asia with those in ...

After thriving for hundreds of thousands of years, Neanderthals disappeared from Eurasia some 40,000 years ago. Today, their ...

measured the morphological diversity in the semicircular canals, structures of the inner ear responsible for our sense of balance, in two exceptional collections of human fossils from the sites of ...

The study focused on two exceptional collections of fossil humans: one from the Sima ... diversity (i.e., disparity) of the semicircular canals of both samples, comparing them with each other ...

Rearranging a Genetic Timeline According to the study, the results show that classic Neanderthals had a lower morphological diversity of the semicircular canals than pre-Neanderthals. “We were ...

In the study, published online Feb. 20 in the journal Nature Communications, researchers discovered that around 110,000 years ago, our closest human ... on the semicircular canals, a set of ...

There are two and a half turns in the human cochlea and if you were to unwind the cochlea ... in the balance portion of the inner ear (one for each of the three semicircular canals and two in a ...

A new study suggests that Neanderthals experienced a dramatic loss of genetic variation during the course of their evolution, foreshadowing their eventual extinction. Examination of semicircular ...