Neanderthals -- the closest ancestor to modern humans -- possessed the ability to perceive and produce human speech, according to a new study published by an international multidisciplinary team ...

Neanderthals possessed the ability to hear and produce speech in a way that closely resembles modern-day humans’, a study has found.. Researchers used high-resolution CT scans to compare virtual ...

March 1 (UPI) --Neanderthals possessed the capacity to hear, process and produce human speech, according to a new survey combining CT scans and computer models.For the study, published Monday in ...

"Neanderthals, though morphologically different, have an auditory capacity that's fine-tuned to the modern speech range," Breyl says. A figure showing similarity in hearing frequency between ...

Despite their similarities to us, Neanderthals were not—repeat, not—our direct ancestors. They were an offshoot of an earlier ...

Undeterred, the linguist teamed with McCarthy to simulate Neanderthal speech based on new reconstructions of three Neanderthal vocal tracts. The 50,000-year old fossils all came from France.

Based on these results, most researchers agree Neanderthals were capable of emitting and hearing complex vocalizations. However, they disagree over the implications. While some consider the findings ...

Neanderthals, an archaic human species that dominated Europe until the arrival of modern humans some 45,000 years ago, possessed a critical gene known to underlie speech, according to DNA evidence ...

The question of Neanderthal speech may never be fully resolved, even as evidence continues to accumulate. “There are no Neanderthals left to speak,” Goldfield says.

It's easy to think that Neanderthals were dumb brutes, incapable of complex speech like us. But it turns out that a Neanderthal's hyoid — a small bone in ...