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 ...

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

Researchers say they may have finally discovered the key genetic change that enabled all of modern human speech.

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

Discovered in Portugal in 1998, the individual dubbed the “Lapedo Child” has long perplexed scientists, thanks to a curious ...

Neanderthal fossils show a major population drop 110,000 years ago. Researchers link this to reduced genetic diversity.

Using dentists' tools, archaeologists painstakingly uncover evidence that Israel’s Tinshemet Cave housed hominins who shared ...

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