Momentous encounters -- Neanderthal ancestors -- Neanderthals and their world -- The quiet people -- The 10,000th grandmother -- Great mobility -- The realm of the Lion Man -- Fat, flints, and furs -- The Gravettians -- The power of the hunt -- Magdalenians -- The challenge of w…
"The Invaders musters compelling evidence to show that the major factor in the Neanderthals' demise was direct competition with newly arriving humans. Drawing on insights from the field of invasion biology, which predicts that the species ecologically closest to the invasive pre…
Presents the results of research into the origins, lifestyle, and technology of Neanderthalers, discussing the genetic tests on Neanderthal bones that indicate the Neanderthal folk were not modern man's direct ancestor, and considering the recent archaeological discovery of a ch…
Presents the results of research into the origins, lifestyle, and technology of Neanderthalers, discussing the genetic tests on Neanderthal bones that indicate the Neanderthal folk were not modern man's direct ancestor, and considering the recent archaeological discovery of a ch…
"Integrates current understanding of the biology, archeology, and ecology of Neandertals" "Thin on the Ground: Neandertal Biology, Archeology and Ecology synthesizes the current knowledge about our sister species the Neandertals, combining data from a variety of disciplines to …
Il y a 40.000 ans, Cro-Magnon supplante définitivement Néanderthal. L'auteure propose un état des savoirs sur l'aventure de l'homme de Néanderthal, une espèce distincte de celle de Cro-Magnon, notre ancêtre immédiat. Les Néanderthaliens précèdent l'espèce Homo sapiens. Présents …
What can we learn from the genes of our closest evolutionary relatives? Neanderthal Man tells the story of geneticist Svante Paabo's mission to answer that question, beginning with the study of DNA in Egyptian mummies in the early 1980s and culminating in his sequencing of the N…
Evidence that Neanderthals caught birds and used their feathers for decoration, along with recent discoveries of Neanderthal cave art, are challenging our preconceptions of the cognitive gap between Neanderthals and modern humans. Clive Finlayson draws on new evidence to overtur…