Modern humans and Neanderthals are classified as separate species. According to biologists, they shouldn’t have been able to breed. But they did. We know this because many of us have some Neanderthal ...

More than just mere cavemen, our Stone Age kin exhibited intelligence in surprising ways, making them more human than ...

The first-ever published research out of Tinshemet Cave indicates the two human species regularly interacted and shared ...

Discoveries in Tinshemet Cave reveals that the relationship between early humans and Neanderthals was more complex than ...

A newly excavated cave in Israel holds burials and artifacts suggesting that multiple human species commingled and shared ...

New study challenges the theory that Neanderthals originated after an evolutionary event that implied the loss of part of ...

Neanderthal genes seem to have hung around long after Neanderthals themselves did, as new scientific dating of the famed ...

Recent research from The Rockefeller University suggests a unique mutation in the NOVA1 gene, specific to humans, played a ...

Advanced radiocarbon dating has provided the most accurate age assessment yet for the “Lapedo Child,” one of the most ...

A small team of computational and evolutionary biologists from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Zhongshan ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists have dated the skeleton of an ancient child that caused a stir when it was first discovered ...