More than a century ago, a distorted image of Neanderthals emerged. When a nearly complete skeleton was discovered in 1908 at La Chapelle-aux-Saints, France, its reconstruction led to lasting ...

An analysis of the semicircular canals in Neanderthal ears reveals evidence of a 'bottleneck' event, leading to a reduction ...

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

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

Modern humans and Neanderthals are classified as separate species. According to biologists, they shouldn’t have been able to ...

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

Your Neanderthal genes might be the reason you fight infections better- find out how ancient DNA shapes your health!

New research has shown that modern humans descend from not one but two separate ancient human ancestral lineages.

For decades, the predominant view of human evolution held that Homo sapiens emerged in Africa between 200,000 and 300,000 ...

A new DNA study reveals that dark skin was common among early Europeans for much longer than previously believed. Pale skin ...