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Neanderthals

Reconstruction of a Neanderthal family in the Neanderthal Museum in Croatia. Illustration: depositphotos.com

The encounter between Neanderthals and modern man as told by their genomes

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A photo of Manot Cave with the marking of the area where some of the teeth were found. Photo: Prof. Israel Hershkovitz

Researchers from Tel Aviv University found teeth of a modern man and a Neanderthal man from about 40,000 years ago in Menot Cave in the Galilee

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Skull of a modern man (back) and a Neanderthal man. Photo: shutterstock

Did diseases spread by Homo sapiens eventually cause the extinction of the Neanderthals?

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Neanderthal man tries to hunt a mammoth. Illustration: shutterstock

Neanderthals and mammoths shared a genetic load of adaptation to cold conditions

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Neanderthal man. From a 2009 Russian textbook on human evolution. Neveshkin Nikolay / Shutterstock.com Photo: shutterstock

On the Neanderthals and their extinction

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Illustration: Charles R. Knight, 1920.

"Cavemen"? Not necessarily

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Neanderthal skull, La Chapelle-au-Sainte, France. From Wikipedia

Ancient Burial / Kate Wong

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Much of the Neanderthal genome is preserved in modern human populations. Neanderthal man. Illustration: shutterstock

Neanderthal lineages reconstructed from the modern human genome

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Neanderthal man. From a 2009 Russian textbook on human evolution. Neveshkin Nikolay / Shutterstock.com Photo: shutterstock

Archaeologists have rediscovered the lost home of the last Neanderthals in Western Europe

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Bones of a Neanderthal who lived 120 years ago in the area that is today Croatia, with a cancerous tumor on them. Photo: Janet Monge et al

A 120-year-old cancerous tumor was found in Neanderthal bones

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Neanderthal man - from Wikipedia, illustration from the 19th century Public domain image

who is who

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The Disappeared Neighbors: Neanderthal DNA and Us

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Research confirmed - there were three subgroups of the Neanderthals

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