When scientists sequenced the first Neanderthal genomes, they did not just resurrect a lost branch of the human family tree, they uncovered a living legacy inside most people alive today. A small but ...

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 ...

This video revealed how Homo sapiens once lived in constant fear of a stronger, faster, more ruthless human species. It ...

We are indeed still evolving, though it can be hard to tell because it happens over generations and often involves things you can't see, such as what foods different people are able to digest. When ...

While the 21st century has been bumpy, it has also ushered in monumental scientific and technological breakthroughs that have ...

It's that day again. That hallowed time of year when the whole family comes together to hit up Amazon Prime, max out the MasterCard and quite literally beat off the competition at the local mall’s big ...

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 ...

Using a specially developed simulation model, researchers at the University of Cologne have traced and analyzed the dynamics ...

Archaeological evidence makes a compelling case for Neanderthal-created fires 400,000 years ago in Suffolk, UK — plus, how ...

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 ...

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

Learning to light our own fires was one of the great turning points in human history, offering our ancestors warmth, a place ...