The extinction of the Neanderthals is one of the most intriguing mysteries in paleoanthropology, with researchers speculating ...

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

is the best source of data to investigate the evolutionary history of Pleistocene humans. The bony labyrinth is housed in the ...

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 ...

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

For thousands of years, Neanderthals flourished across Eurasia. But new research suggests their genetic diversity plummeted ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...