New study challenges the theory that Neanderthals originated after an evolutionary event that implied the loss of part of ...

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 modern-day humans, the researchers could gauge the relative variety of body ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...