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Did Homo sapiens really outsmart Neanderthals? Different skull shapes didn’t necessarily mean unequal brain capacity, new research shows
Neanderthals lived for hundreds of thousands of years before mysteriously disappearing around 40,000 years ago—and scientists ...
Now, new research published in the journal PLOS One indicates that they were capable of complex dental interventions, which ...
A hole drilled into a 60,000-year-old molar suggests that Neanderthals practiced complex dental care long before modern ...
Scientists dug up a Paleolithic tooth that shows signs that these hominins may have been capable of executing a precise ...
Neanderthals used sophisticated techniques with a stone drill to treat a painful dental cavity, according to new research.
Archaeologists analyzed a Neanderthal molar that seems like it was intentionally drilled, but some experts are skeptical ...
Scientists say a tooth discovered in a Russian cave has provided the oldest evidence of "complex" dental care.
A Neanderthal tooth shows clear signs of human intervention to treat bacterial decay, showing that the earliest dentistry ...
A new study has revealed new insights into the mating patterns and preferences of early humans. The study, published in the journal Science on Feb. 26, found that when Neanderthals and early humans ...
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