Discover how ancient humans scaled up their food production to survive in harsh environments.

Recent research suggests that some of these genetic variants inherited from Neanderthals could be linked to autism spectrum ...

The five-part series examines how we, as Homo sapiens, went from being just one of many types of human to becoming the ...

Scientists have revealed the most scientifically accurate reconstructions of what ancient humans would have looked like.

"Humans picked up some Neanderthal DNA through interbreeding, while the Neanderthal population, always fairly small, was ...

The skull of a 5-year-old girl who lived 140,000 years ago has similarities with modern Homo sapiens and Neanderthals, ...

New research suggests that modern conditions may trace back to Neanderthal skull traits we share with our extinct cousins.

The Neanderthals are our closest extinct relatives, and they continue to fascinate as we peer back through tens of thousands ...

There were also a few curiosities that got the team wondering what was being overlooked further back in time. For example, a 120,000-year-old Neanderthal was found in the Siberian Denisova cave ...

These piercing eyes belong to a reconstruction of a Neanderthal, an ancient human relative that shared the planet with Denisovans and modern humans. Genetic research suggests that they went ...

New evidence reveals that Neanderthals were rendering fat from animal bones 125,000 years ago.

The excavation of the archaeological site in Germany took place from 2004 to 2009 and was conducted by researchers from ...