Genetic studies show Neanderthals had varied skin and hair pigmentation adapted to their environments. Some populations ...

S ome groups of European Neanderthals may have lost the ability to make fire during the colder periods of their existence. As ...

A team of anthropologists recently examined a collection of fossil hominin jawbones, teeth, and vertebrae that belong to ...

Researchers have uncovered compelling evidence that Neanderthals repeatedly deposited horned animal skulls in a Spanish cave over thousands of years, suggesting a culturally transmitted ritual ...

A collection of bones from Casablanca holds important new clues to the origins of modern humans and Neanderthals.

Palaeolithic humans living on both sides of the Strait of Gibraltar were a creative bunch to say the least, and were ...

The human immune system like fat and blood sugar levels may have been due to genetic mutations from Denisovans, our little known extinct human relatives ...

Genetic evidence suggests the last shared ancestor of present-day humans, as well as ancient Neanderthals and Denisovans, ...

There’s a cave in Spain that seems to have held some sort of ritual significance to Neanderthals, though researchers have no ...

The jawbones and vertebrae of a hominin that lived 773,000 years ago have been found in North Africa and could represent a ...

Jawbones and other remains, similar to specimens found in Europe, were dated to 773,000 years and help close a gap in ...

Between roughly 600,000 and one million years ago, Africa’s fossil record goes strangely quiet. Genetic evidence suggests ...