This innovative approach combines climate data, archaeological evidence, and population dynamics to simulate how Neanderthals moved across the landscape. The model reveals that by the time ...

Early human ancestors called the LRJ Group lived in Europe for 80 generations, intermingling with Neanderthals, before ...

Over a century ago, anthropologist Raymond Dart chipped an ancient skull out of some rock from an ancient quarry — and revealed the face of an ancient human relative.

Earliest evidence of human fire-making found at 400,000-year-old Suffolk site. Researchers led by the British Museum have uncovered what they believe is the earliest known evidence of humans making ...

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

The knowledge of how to make fire rather than relying on the exploitation of naturally occurring fire marked a key ...

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 ...

A newly reconstructed fossil face from Ethiopia reveals surprising complexity in early human evolution. By digitally fitting together teeth and fossilized bone fragments, researchers reconstructed a ...

The Day Science Fell for One of the Most Absurd Hoaxes Ever On December 18, 1912, a group of distinguished gentlemen gathered ...

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

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

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