Neanderthals and Homo sapiens shared technology and customs in the Levant, shaping early human culture through cooperation.

Modern humans have uniquely small and flat faces, especially compared with our Neanderthal cousins' notoriously robust faces ...

Humans' unique language capacity was present at least 135,000 years ago, according to a survey of genomic evidence. As such, language might have entered social use 100,000 years ago.

Archaeologists have discovered fossilized facial bones of an ancient human race which lived roughly 1.4 million years ago, ...

The ongoing intrigue should come as no surprise because, for a long time, Neanderthals were the model for the missing link between our own species, Homo sapiens, and the first apelike pre-human ...

Homo sapiens, the species to which all modern humans belong, evolved in Africa roughly 300,000 years ago. Early Homo sapiens shared the planet with other human species like Neanderthals and Homo ...

Until now, at least 14 different species have been assigned to the genus Homo since it emerged in Ethiopia some 2.8 million ...

While it is generally accepted that the forerunner to Homo sapiens - Homo erectus - left Africa about 1.5 million years ago to populate other parts of the world, there are two main theories about ...