London, March 13 (ANI): Neanderthals became extinct because they had larger eyes than modern humans, a new study of skulls of the now extinct species has suggested.

Washington, February 5 (ANI): An international study has questioned a theory, which held that the last Neanderthals -Homo neanderthalensis- persisted in southern Iberia at the same time that modern humans -Homo sapiens- advanced in the northern part of the peninsula.

Washington, November 2 (ANI): Very few populations of modern humans do not carry genetic traces of Neanderthals, researchers say.

London, Oct 31 (ANI): Neanderthals learned how to make jewellery and sophisticated tools from the ancestors of modern humans, a new study suggests.

Washington, October 5 (ANI): Harvard and Max Planck Institute scientists have estimated the date when Neanderthals and modern Europeans last shared ancestors to explain why Neanderthals are most closely related to people outside Africa.

Washington, August 21 (ANI): Researchers have described an ancient skull recovered from a cave in the Annamite Mountains in northern Laos as the oldest modern human fossil found in Southeast Asia, pushing back the clock on modern human migration through the region by as much as 20,000 years.

Washington, August 14 (ANI): In the last two years, a number of studies have suggested that modern humans and Neanderthals had at some point interbred, known as hybridisation.

Johannesburg, July 24 (ANI): A new study has revealed that modern humans were probably a greater threat to the Neanderthals than major natural events like extreme cold weather or volcanoes.

Washington, June 15 (ANI): Uranium-series dating has revealed that the practice of cave art in Europe began up to 10,000 years earlier than previously thought, indicating the paintings were created either by the first anatomically modern humans in Europe or, perhaps, by Neanderthals.

London, April 12 (ANI): A new study has indicated that our desire to co-operate with each other may have resulted in the evolution of bigger brains as compared to our ancestors.

Washington, March 6 (ANI): Modern humans and climate change are both responsible for the extinction of many of the world's big animals over the last 100,000 years, scientists have revealed.

London, March1 (ANI): Neanderthals may have used the seas as a highway centuries before modern humans managed the same trick, researchers in Greece say.

Washington, Feb 28 (ANI): An international team of researchers, studying ancient DNA, have suggested that most Neanderthals in Europe already were largely extinct 50,000 years ago - long before modern humans first arrived in the continent.

Washington, Jan 27 (ANI): A new study, which uses genetic analysis to study the earliest human migrations, suggests that when modern humans first migrated out of Africa over sixty thousand years ago, they settled in Arabia on their way to the rest of the world.

London, Dec 15 (ANI): Scientists have found that the human temporal lobes, involved in language, memory and social functions as well as the olfactory bulbs are relatively larger in Homo sapiens than in Neanderthals.

Washington, Dec 13 (ANI): The disappearance of elephants 400,000 years ago led to the appearance of modern humans in the Middle East, according to researchers.

London, Nov 3 (ANI): Researchers have confirmed that members of our species - Homo sapiens - arrived in Europe several millennia earlier than previously thought after re-analyses of two ancient deciduous teeth.

London, Nov 3 (ANI): Researchers have confirmed that members of our species - Homo sapiens - arrived in Europe several millennia earlier than previously thought after re-analyses of two ancient deciduous teeth.

Washington, Sept 27 (ANI): An international team of scientists has discovered that, contrary to the information available till date, modern humans possibly populated Asia in at least two migration waves.

London, Sept 17 (ANI): A reanalysis of a 13,000-year-old skull has revealed that ancient and modern humans interbred in Africa.

Washington, Sept 8 (ANI): A new research has revealed that archaic humans, who lived somewhere in Africa during the last 20-60 thousand years, interbred with anatomically modern humans and transferred small amounts of genetic material to their offspring who are alive today,

Washington, Sept 6 (ANI): Ancestors of modern humans got intimate with a now extinct lineage of humanity before they migrated out of Africa, a new research has found.

London, Sept 01 (ANI): Homo erectus, a precursor to modern humans, was using advanced tool making methods in East Africa 1.8 million years ago, at least 300,000 years earlier than previously thought, according to a new study.