Will We Ever Clone a Caveman?
The first complete Neanderthal skeleton shows how our species has evolved. 09.01.2006
Neanderthals Grow Fast, Die Young
07.26.2004
Who Killed the Neanderthals?
04.19.2004
Hand it to the Neanderthals
07.01.2003
Works in Progress
Did we rub out the Neanderthals? Or did we rub off on them? 03.01.2002
Science News
12.01.1999
Learning to Love Neanderthals
Does the 25,000-year-old body of a child found in Portugal make it more likely that they are our ancestors? 08.01.1999
The Year in Science: Human Origins 1997
Not our Mom 01.01.1998
And a One and a . . . Uh, Uh . . .
04.01.1997
Neanderthal Noses
03.01.1997
. . . Or Much Like Us?
01.01.1997
Strong Bones, and Thus Dim-witted?
01.01.1997
The Face of an Ancestral Child
The remains of an 11-year-old who lived and died 800,000 years ago have been found in northern Spain, at a place called Atapuerca. The child's people may have been the ancestors of Neanderthals. But the child's face was ours. 12.01.1996
A Breed Apart
01.01.1996
The Neanderthal Peace
For perhaps 50,000 years, two radically different types of human lived side by side in the same small land. And for all those millennia, the two apparently had nothing whatsoever to do with each other. Why in the world not? 09.01.1995
The Slow Crawl Forward
08.01.1995