Scientists discovered humans descended from two ancient populations, not one. These groups split 1.5 million years ago.

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

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

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

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

More than just mere cavemen, our Stone Age kin exhibited intelligence in surprising ways, making them more human than ...

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

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

Neanderthal fossils show a major population drop 110,000 years ago. Researchers link this to reduced genetic diversity.

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

A newly excavated cave in Israel holds burials and artifacts suggesting that multiple human species commingled and shared ...

The research team at the Atapuerca archaeological sites in Burgos, Spain, has just broken its own record by discovering, for ...