For decades, Neanderthals were thought to be our less sophisticated cousins who communicated through basic sounds and simple ...

The time has come to reconsider an outdated understanding of human evolution: it was ...

A tiny set of ancient genetic “switches” may have played a surprisingly large role in making human language possible.

Left: computed tomographic (CT) scan of a Neanderthal fossil (La Ferrassie 1). Right: CT scan of a modern human. Credit: Philipp Gunz, License: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 The human face is strikingly distinct ...

In this new series, Human, paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi reveals our incredible story across 300,000 years of human evolution and how – with the help of the latest discoveries – we’re learning ...

For more than a century, human origins have been told as a story of expansion, migration, and survival. But deep in that ...

Chinese scientists have analysed the skull, which dates back almost 150,000 years, and have come to a groundbreaking ...

A face from 146000 years ago is a mystery to scientists but may be the missing link to a generation of ancient humans we ...

NEW YORK — Humans and Neanderthals cozied up from time to time when they lived in the same areas tens of thousands of years ago. But we don't know much about who got with whom, or why. A new genetic ...