One of the earliest known human burials unearthed in Skhul Cave was a cross between modern humans and Neanderthals with an ...

A new Simon Fraser University-led study reveals interbreeding between humans and their ancient cousins, Neanderthals, as the likely origin of a ...

Iceman may have come to an unfortunate end while crossing the Alps more than 5,000 years ago, but thanks to his ...

Shamahi, tracing the development of Homo sapiens across 300,000 years of prehistory in the first of a five-part series, Human ...

New research reveals a hidden geometric ratio in Leonardo’s drawing that may define the endpoint of human evolution toward ...

Homo sapiens: we’ve been through a lot these past 300,000 or so years. Now we have our own TV show.

N eanderthals and Homo sapiens repeatedly interbred, shared genes, and merged populations over the course of nearly 250,000 ...

According to new research, Neanderthal DNA genes could be the reason that some people are more prone to a type of ...

A 140,000-year-old hybrid child's skull found in Israel shows traits of both Homo sapiens and Neanderthals, rewriting the ...

Significant brain defects known as Chiari malformations could be down the genes some of us have inherited from Neanderthals, ...

The researchers used modern CT scanning techniques to get a new and detailed look, suggesting that the child might be a ...

Neanderthals had a taste for fat, and they worked hard to get it. Long before humans built cities or invented writing, these ...