Neanderthals used bird feathers as `personal ornaments`

Last Updated: Tuesday, September 18, 2012, 19:23

Neanderthals harvested feathers from birds in order to use them as personal ornaments, a new study has suggested.

Study challenges human-Neanderthal interbreeding theory

Last Updated: Tuesday, August 14, 2012, 15:53

DNA similarities in modern human and Neanderthals could be the result of shared ancestry but not interbreeding, a new Cambridge study has claimed.

Neanderthals ate vegetables, used plants as medicine

Last Updated: Friday, July 20, 2012, 16:20

Neanderthals were more sophisticated than they have been credited with. This has been corroborated by the first ever evidence that suggests they cooked plants for food and used them as medicines.

`Neanderthals died out from interbreeding with humans`

Last Updated: Friday, November 18, 2011, 12:45

The real reason why Neanderthals died out was because they were too smart for their own good.

Human evolution `occurred outside Africa also`

Last Updated: Tuesday, November 1, 2011, 17:21

Scientists have claimed that human evolution also occurred outside Africa, after they found evidence that people in East Asia share genetic material with Denisovans.