Neanderthals Faced a Catastrophic Population Crash 110,000 Years Ago
An analysis of the semicircular canals in Neanderthal ears reveals evidence of a 'bottleneck' event, leading to a reduction ...
New Fossil Evidence Challenges Long-Held Beliefs About Neanderthal Origins
New study challenges the theory that Neanderthals originated after an evolutionary event that implied the loss of part of ...
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Neanderthal inner ears labyrinth hold clues to their ‘bottleneck event’, a rapid decline in numbers
Urciuoli and his team investigated the evolution of the semicircular canals in the Neanderthal clade using diffeomorphometry (DMorph), an approach that allows direct comparison of continuous ...