This year in Neanderthals
Researchers used to think that Neanderthals and Homo sapien sapiens were pretty much separated from each other. But more and more research points to a significant amount of inter relationships, and that Neanderthals were much more tha n "knuckle-dragging brutes that were too dimwitted for moral or religious concepts, probably lacking language and behaviorally less advanced than modern humans." A New York Times summary published in January of 2026, continues to provide eviden
The demise of Homo neanderthalensis
Why did our Homo sapiens species survive and Homo neanderthalensis die out? New research reported in NewScientist uncovers a number of...
Another Bottleneck!
Apparently there has been more than one bottleneck along the way to our current milieu. In new research reported in Popular Science,...
A mysterious human species may have been the first to bury their dead
By chapter 7, we finally encountered modern Homo sapiens sapiens, and remarked that the redundancy in the name came from the fact that...