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Neanderthal person

Named in 6 reports across 4 stories - 5 Aug – 3 Nov
5 Aug 20263 Nov 2026

Closest companions, sized by how often they share a report with Neanderthal. Lines between the outer names are their own relationships - names that appear together even without Neanderthal.

Beijing and China share 1 reportAustralia and China Daily share 1 reportCanada and China Daily share 1 reportAustralia and Beijing share 1 reportAdelaide and Bastien Llamas share 1 reportChinese and Denisova share 1 reportCanada and Denisova share 1 reportBeijing and Chinese share 1 reportChina Daily and Chinese share 1 reportChina and Chinese share 1 reportBeijing and Canada share 1 reportAustralia and Canada share 1 reportChina Daily and Denisova share 1 reportChina and China Daily share 1 reportBeijing and Denisova share 1 reportCanada and Chinese share 1 reportChina and Denisova share 1 reportAustralia and Chinese share 1 reportBeijing and China Daily share 1 reportAustralia and China share 1 reportAustralia and Denisova share 1 reportCanada and China share 1 reportAustralia and Bastien Llamas share 1 reportAdelaide and Australia share 1 reportNeanderthalAustraliaAustralia - 2 shared reports (place)Shanidar Ca…Shanidar Cave - 2 shared reports (place)AdelaideAdelaide - 1 shared report (place)Bastien Lla…Bastien Llamas - 1 shared report (person)BeijingBeijing - 1 shared report (place)CanadaCanada - 1 shared report (place)ChinaChina - 1 shared report (place)China DailyChina Daily - 1 shared report (organization)ChineseChinese - 1 shared report (place)DenisovaDenisova - 1 shared report (place)

The stories

This 236-Million-Year-Old Fossil Just Rewrote the Story of Live Birth

18 outlets1 report names Neanderthal13 Aug – 4 Nov

Remains may be earliest evidence of ancient human speared to death

10 outlets2 reports name Neanderthal15 Oct – 18 Oct

75,000-year-old Neanderthal skeleton reveals signs of targeted violence

1 outlets2 reports name Neanderthal1 Nov – 3 Nov

Neanderthal gene makes some modern humans taller and more muscular

1 outlets1 report names Neanderthal5 Aug

Who keeps naming them

Times of India2nature.com1BBC News World1theconversation.com1Google News - Top Stories1

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