along with part of the jawbone, it was unearthed at nesher ramla, an archaeological site once used bydings are the missing piece in the puzzle that can help us explain open questions in human evolutionary history and give us an indication of the region, the source population of neanderthals that lived later in europe. it is believed neanderthals, the cousins of modern humans, died out around 40,000 years ago, but these fragments are from a species much older than that and suggest the neanderthal story much may be much more different than previously imagined. now we can say that it's probably that they originate in the levant, in our region, rather than in europe, as many researchers thought until now. nesher ramal may have lived alongside and even mated with homo sapiens for more than 100,000 years. these aren't just fragments of bone, they are pieces of an evolutionary jigsaw. tim allman, bbc news. astronomers have worked out when the first stars began shining. using the world's most powerful telescopes, they estimate this crucial moment, known as the cosmic dawn, occurred between 25