Scientists have uncovered a surprising new picture of human origins that challenges the long-held idea of a single ancestral ...

A new study uncovers a subtle but powerful factor that may have tipped the balance between Neanderthals and early humans.

The latest research on a Neanderthal infant from Amud Cave in Israel is giving a clearer picture of how different early ...

A skull fragment discovered over fifty years ago on the banks of the Elbe River in Germany has finally yielded its secrets. Long considered by some researchers to be a rare Neanderthal-modern human ...

The study was led by Ariane Burke, an anthropologist at the University of Montreal’s Department of Anthropology. Her team ...

Scientists think Neanderthal children may have had faster growth rates because larger bodies tend to retain heat more ...

There was once an enigma that intrigued people all around the world and baffled scientists for many years: the skull of a man ...

Archaeologists have found evidence that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens not only lived side by side during the mid-Middle ...

Archaeologists found 115,000-year-old human footprints where they shouldn't be—and they just might rewrite the history of ...

A massive study of ancient and modern DNA from thousands of West Eurasian people has identified nearly 500 genetic variants ...

Why do 90% of humans reach with the same hand? The answer stretches back millions of years and involves fossils, language and ...