Neanderthal skull discovered in 1908 in France. (Luna04/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 3.0) In 1857, the German anatomist Hermann ...

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In a first-of-its-kind finding, researchers at University of Iowa Health Care discovered that specific genetic sequences have an outsized impact on humans' language abilities and that these sequences ...

University of Iowa researchers discovered human predecessors, previously thought to not be verbal, have parts of human DNA ...

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If you've ever wondered what it would be like to natter with a Neanderthal or have a heart-to-heart with Homo erectus, then wonder no more. Scientists have used research to recreate the lost language ...

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CNN — If you were to greet a Neanderthal with a handshake, it might feel a little awkward. The digits of the Stone Age people, who went extinct about 40,000 years ago, were much chunkier than ours.