Proof that Neandertals hadn’t adapted to cold was right under their noses. “What we found is that, yes, Neandertals had bigger noses, but that the inner structure of their noses was not so different ...

The Neanderthals are our closest evolutionary human cousins and for hundreds of thousands of years were much more successful at colonizing Europe than we were. Recent archaeological evidence shows ...

A Neanderthal child’s skull fragment reveals the oldest known case of Down syndrome—and proof of care and compassion 250,000 years ago. Researchers believe this child lived for six years thanks to ...

How far back in evolutionary history does kissing go? Through phylogenetic analysis, an international team of scientists found that kissing was likely present in the ancestor of all apes – which lived ...

Anthropologists have spent centuries piecing together the story of human history. For every fascinating detail they unearth, there are others that are rather, uh, unsavory. A new analysis of human ...

A new study published in Nature on November 26 has shed light on the origins, population structures, and kinship systems of the people of Shimao—one of China's most significant late Neolithic ...

Archaeologists have confirmed the first evidence of intentional cranial modification in the northern region of the Huasteca, revealing that square-shaped skulls were part of ancient cultural practices ...

BOSTON — Authorities have announced an update on a startling discovery made by workers in Boston’s Seaport last week. Construction workers at the Black Falcon Terminal dug up what appeared to be a ...

The Altamura Man was discovered in a cave in southern Italy in 1993. K.A.R.S.T. PRIN Project Neanderthals had a distinctive appearance. Before they died out roughly 40,000 years ago, Homo sapiens’ ...

Roughly 45,000 years ago, one group of Neanderthals in present-day Belgium killed and cannibalized another group made up of vulnerable women and children, according to grisly evidence uncovered in ...

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