Modern humans can be recognized by their smaller facial structure when compared with Neanderthals and other hominin ancestors ...

It may be a politically incorrect to say it, but desperate times require words commensurate with the existential threat of ...

Neanderthals bore stout jaws and broad noses, their features jutting forward like cliffs of bone. Chimpanzees, our distant cousins, wear visages built for strength. Modern humans, by contrast, have ...

A new explanation has emerged for why Homo sapiens survived in Europe and North Asia when the apparently better-adapted ...

In a time long before cities, farms, or even written words, early humans across the Levant were already shaping a complex ...

Relatively little is known about Denisovans, an extinct group of human cousins that interacted with Neanderthals and Homo ...

Less good is the fact that Neanderthal DNA can leave individuals predisposed to developing skin lesions called keratoses, ...

Unlike Neanderthals, human facial growth halts in adolescence—shrinking jaws and midfaces over time. This evolutionary shift ...

Stone Age humans used a form of "prehistoric sunscreen" more than 40,000 years ago that may have helped them survive whilst ...

A bone discovered in Taiwan turns out to have belonged to a Denisovan, a lineage previously identified only thousands of ...

A jawbone dredged up from the seafloor off Taiwan belongs to an ancient human species known as Denisovans, protein fragments ...

Researchers from the University of Washington excavating a site in China have found Neanderthal tools dating back almost ...