Ancient humans in Africa changed their behaviour in a major way 70,000 years ago, which could explain how their descendants ...

The first ancient human fossils that scientists discovered were of Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis) in the late 1840s. However, it wasn't until the 1990s and 2000s that they were confirmed to ...

Images released ahead of a new BBC science series depict Homo floresiensis, Homo erectus, Homo neanderthalensis plus the ...

If you regularly experience headaches, dizziness, balance problems and blurred vision, our Neanderthal cousins could be to ...

Using skulls of 128 modern humans from around the globe, 33 chimpanzees, and 13 Neanderthals — some mere infants, others fully grown — the researchers tracked how the face changes over time.

In this new series, Human, paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi reveals our incredible story across 300,000 years of human ...

Paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi reveals our incredible story across 300,000 years of human evolution in the upcoming new ...

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

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

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 ...