The climate and early human societies were changing quickly during the fall of our closest evolutionary relative—and are big ...

A recent study published in Nature Human Behaviour shows that a cave in central Israel suggest that Neanderthals and early ...

The first-ever published research out of Tinshemet Cave indicates the two human species regularly interacted and shared technologies and customs.

The new approach to radiocarbon dating could soon be applied to other Paleolithic human sites, improving our understanding of ...

New study challenges the theory that Neanderthals originated after an evolutionary event that implied the loss of part of ...

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

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

Neanderthal genes in living people seem to have come from one phase of mating around 55,000 to 60,000 years ago, yet we know from DNA in Homo sapiens fossils that mating was happening earlier and ...

Amud and Dederiyeh caves are linked with Neanderthals. "That said, there is growing evidence that these populations ...

making the dots and lines by Neanderthal oldest in Europe. Homo-sapiens and Neanderthals never co-existed but the finding can tell us more about evolution of our brain.

Piecing together the story of Europe’s earliest settlers is a challenge, largely because relevant human fossils are scarce.

Fragments of a partial skull unearthed in a cave in northern Spain have revealed a previously unknown population of ancient ...