A recent study compared features of Neanderthals' inner ears across space and time to extrapolate what happened to them tens ...

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

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

A new study by an international team of scholars, including faculty at Binghamton University, State University of New York, suggests that Neanderthals experienced a dramatic loss of genetic variation ...

A study of the inner ear bones of Neanderthals shows a significant loss of diversity in their shape around 110,000 years ago, ...

It is widely accepted that results obtained from studying the morphological diversity of the semicircular canals are comparable to those obtained through DNA comparisons. The study focused on two ...

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 ...

There are five sensory epithelia in the balance portion of the inner ear (one for each of the three semicircular canals and two in a chamber where the three canals come together). The nerve fibers ...

The study, co-authored by Professor of Anthropology Rolf Quam and graduate student Brian Keeling, measured the morphological diversity in the semicircular canals, structures of the inner ear ...