Preeclampsia, a complication of pregnancy that involves high blood pressure, could have led to a decline in Neanderthals' ...

A controversial new study published on November 14, 2025, challenges the long-held belief that Neanderthals disappeared due to outright extinction around 40,000 years ago. Instead, it proposes that ...

For instance, a Neanderthal variant of a gene called H19 may have heightened their risk of hypertension, thus exacerbating the symptoms of preeclampsia. Other Neanderthal genes that regulate ...

Neanderthals disappeared from the fossil record approximately 40,000 years ago. Their extinction was a gradual process over thousands of years, and theories as to why include competition with modern ...

For more than a century, the disappearance of Neanderthals has been framed as a story of extinction, a vanishing act that cleared the stage for Homo sapiens. A new wave of genetic and archaeological ...

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Neanderthals have long been the subject of intense scientific debate. This is largely because we still lack clear answers to some of the big questions about their existence and supposed disappearance.

The French paleoanthropologist discusses his book ‘The Last Neanderthal,’ and provides clues about his latest discovery: ...

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