EARLY hominins in Europe were creating tools from raw materials hundreds of thousands of years before Homo sapiens arrived ...

A growing body of genetic evidence suggests that Neanderthals and Denisovans carried many of the same regulatory gene networks linked to language and vocal anatomy in modern humans, challenging the ...

Neanderthals are often portrayed as primitive and unintelligent, but archaeological discoveries tell a different story. From ...

Our DNA is like a treasure trove that holds secrets from deep time, whispers from ancient kin who vanished without a trace yet gave us who we are toda.

The ability to communicate symbolically is one of the hallmarks of our species, yet scientists still don’t know exactly when ...

The results were grossly inaccurate, stemming from AI pulling its information from outdated stereotypes in lieu of paywalled ...

Across their modelling strategies, the authors place the theoretical upper limit of the modern human lifespan somewhere between 128 and 202 years. They also note the best-verified maximum recorded ...

The bony facial protrusion might be an evolutionary byproduct that resulted from changes to other parts of the skull, according to a new study ...

A new study explains why humans have chins while other primates do not. Researchers found that the chin likely formed as a ...

The French paleoanthropologist discusses his book ‘The Last Neanderthal,’ and provides clues about his latest discovery: ...

“The chin evolved largely by accident and not through direct selection, but as an evolutionary byproduct resulting from direct selection on other parts of the skull,” University of Buffalo biological ...

Long before agriculture, humans were transforming Europe’s wild landscapes. Advanced simulations show that hunting and fire use by Neanderthals and Mesolithic hunter-gatherers reshaped forests and ...