More than a decade after the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced, scientists are still working to understand how ...

Why is swapping saliva something all human societies have normalised? Turns out kissing isn't just a human thing — all sorts of species appear to kiss, and new research suggests Neanderthals did it ...

Archaeologists have found the earliest evidence yet of fire technology — and it was created by Neanderthals in England more ...

A new study finds tiny Neanderthal DNA differences shaped their powerful jaws, revealing how small genetic changes influence ...

Evidence uncovered in a field in Suffolk, England indicates that ancient humans intentionally harnessed fire more than ...

A study shows Neanderthals made first fire in Britain 400,000 years ago, pushing back the timeline of controlled fire use by ...

Human evolution is not a straight line but a complex branching tree shared with other great apes. This overview explains the ...

Tiny genetic variations between humans, Neanderthals and Denisovans might not be all they were cracked up to be.

Researchers at the University of Cologne use simulations to investigate the likelihood of interactions between Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans on the Iberian Peninsula / publication in ...

Researchers at the University of Cologne use simulations to investigate the likelihood of interactions between Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans on the Iberian Peninsula / publication in ...

The findings, described in the journal Nature, push back the earliest known date for controlled fire-making by roughly ...

That could place the ancestors of Homo sapiens—modern humans—outside Africa, an idea which flips everything palaeontologists ...