Despite their similarities to us, Neanderthals were not—repeat, not—our direct ancestors. They were an offshoot of an earlier ...

The hunting prowess of the Neanderthal matched those who supplanted them, the Cro-Magnon, say researchers who have examined ungulate teeth and bones found in a cave in which both types of hominids ...

The Cro Magnon skull is molded fiberglass. ... Neanderthals did have larger faces than early moderns, but the size discrepancy is enhanced here by the fact that the Cro Magnon skull has no teeth.

July 16, 2008 — -- Did the first modern humans in Europe share a bed with nearby Neanderthals? Almost certainly not, according to a new analysis of 28,000 year old Cro-Magnon DNA. The Cro ...

This woman and six other ancient Europeans -- including a Cro-Magnon man, a Neanderthal woman and a man-bun-sporting dude from 250 B.C. ... took 3D printed replicas of their skulls and got to work.

Cutting Neanderthals off the family tree / Modern humans derive fully from Cro-Magnons, Stanford anthropologist contends By David Perlman , Chronicle Science Editor March 10, 2003 Side by Side ...

Skulls: - Left: Amud 1, Neanderthal, 55.000 years ago, ~1750 cm³ - Middle: Cro Magnon, Homo sapiens, 32.000 years ago, ~1570 cm³ - Right: Atapuerca 5, Middle ...

The implication of Fagan's thesis is that Cro-Magnons flourished in climatic conditions that extinguished Neanderthals precisely because of their sophistication, and this remains plausible even if ...

In 1848, the Forbes Quarry in Gibraltar yielded one of the most complete Neanderthal skulls ever found, but it, too, ... Homo sapiens or Cro-Magnon, had arrived in Neanderthal territory.

Neanderthals probably fell victim to taller and superior Cro-Magnons rather than catastrophic climate change, researchers said on Wednesday. Using a new method to calibrate carbon-14 dating, the ...

Though similar to Neanderthals, Cro-Magnons have some interesting differences. What does the fossil record reveal about their intelligence and how they survived? By Sara Novak. Dec 28, ... that they ...