An 80,000-year-old bone spear tip, unearthed in Russia, challenges previous assumptions about Neanderthal capabilities. This ...

As such, he named the Neanderthal Thorin after the Tolkien character. “Thorin in the Hobbit is one of the last dwarf kings ...

Most people have heard of at least one early species closely related to modern humans: the humble Neanderthal, a widespread ...

Everyone’s seen Rudolph Zallinger’s “The March of Progress” illustration showcasing the evolution of humans: from early ...

A new genomic study in Science encompassing more than 300 genomes spanning the last 50,000 years has revealed how a single wave of Neanderthal gene flow into early modern humans left an indelible ...

"We found that many of those regions actually match pretty closely with early ... and Homo sapiens coexisted in Europe, with Homo sapiens -- often called anatomically modern humans -- arriving ...

How did the earliest members of the modern human species get here ... as we take you on tour to meet our ancestors - the early Homo sapiens of the Pleistocene. White House announces student ...

But as early modern humans made these lifestyle changes, Neanderthals ultimately disappeared. The team speculates these differences may have contributed to Homo sapiens outliving Neanderthals ...

"We found that many of those regions actually match pretty closely with early ... and Homo sapiens coexisted in Europe, with Homo sapiens—often called anatomically modern humans—arriving ...

Just because Homo sapiens hadn’t yet developed the SPF rating system ... sapiens and Neanderthals had lived. The two groups of early and modern humans co-existed in Europe starting about 56,000 years ...

Cave dwelling, clothing and sunscreen may be the reason Homo sapiens outlasted the Neanderthals, a new study suggests. Neanderthals became extinct about 40,000 years ago, leaving modern humans as ...

Early humans had almost no hope of surviving severe burns, so evolution may have prioritised the selection of genes that heal ...