(Technically, their name is pronounced the French way, “cro man-YON.”) Populations of Neanderthals and Cro-Magnon people overlapped in Europe for a few thousand years. They did interbreed ...

Cro-Magnon 1, the skull of an adult man found at the cave, shows signs of a fungal infection, while some of the others had fused vertebrae in their necks, which would have likely come from ...

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This woman and six other ancient Europeans — including a Cro-Magnon man, a Neanderthal woman and a man-bun-sporting dude from 250 B.C. — are on display at a museum in Brighton, England ...

The skeleton of Cro-Magnon 1, a male Homo sapiens dating back 28,000 years, was discovered in 1868 in the Eyzies cave in France’s southwestern Dordogne region. To mark 150 years since the ...

SYDNEY The father of evolution Charles Darwin was a direct descendant of the Cro-Magnon people ... appeared in a man around 35,000 years ago, he said. “Approximately 70 per cent of men in ...

THERE’S a famous thought experiment about kidnapping a Cro-Magnon man, bathing and shaving him, dressing him in a suit and putting him on the New York subway. Would anybody bat an eyelid?

“cro man-YON.”) Populations of Neanderthals and Cro-Magnon people overlapped in Europe for a few thousand years. They did interbreed, which left traces of Neanderthal DNA in our genome.