Neanderthals may have been far more like us than once believed. A new review of genetic, archaeological, and fossil evidence suggests that speech and language could have been shared by modern humans ...

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The linguistic abilities of Neanderthals, the closest ancestors to modern humans, have been largely debated. A new study helps settle the decades-long debate with evidence in favor of team Neanderthal ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Where they lived: Western Eurasia, from Wales to Siberia to modern-day Israel. What they ate: Meat, from elephants to mussels.