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22 wrz 2024 · Neanderthal (Homo neanderthalensis) was an archaic human group that lived in Eurasia from 200,000 to 35,000 years ago. Learn about their fossils, culture, adaptation, and relationship with modern humans.
6 mar 2023 · Neanderthals were human-like hominids who lived in Eurasia for 400,000 to 40,000 years ago. They had similar brains, tools, and diets to modern humans, but also had distinctive features and...
As Darwinian evolution gained ground among nineteenth-century natural scientists, the Neander valley individual became widely accepted as a fossil human, one that the anatomist William King (1864) first proposed to classify as a separate species, Homo neanderthalensis, on the following terms:
Neanderthals were an extinct group of archaic humans who lived in Eurasia until about 40,000 years ago. They had a more robust build, larger brain, and sophisticated technology than modern humans, but their extinction is disputed.
29 lut 2024 · Over the course of 300,000 years, Homo sapiens shared Earth with potentially as many as seven other species of ancient humans. But of all of these species, it is the Neanderthals who have captured the imagination of both scientists and the public alike.
23 lip 2010 · Neanderthals are a group of fossil humans that inhabited Western Eurasia from approximately 300 to 30,000 years ago (ka). They vanished from the fossil record a few millennia after the first modern humans appeared in Europe (ca. 40 ka BP).
Cast of the cranium of Neanderthal 1, the first fossil recognised as Neanderthal. It was named as a new human species, Homo neanderthalensis , eight years later in 1864. It was the first ancient human species ever identified and is now known as Neanderthal 1 or Feldhofer 1, after the original name of the cave where it was found.
