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.

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

National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek is retracing the path of human migration. More specifically, the scientific ...

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

According to groundbreaking findings from England, Neanderthals were sparking their own fires 400,000 years ago — hundreds of thousands of years earlier than many anthropologists previously believed.

A groundbreaking discovery reveals that early humans, possibly Neanderthals, were using tools to create fire more than ...

Heat-reddened clay, fire-cracked stone, and fragments of pyrite mark where Neanderthals gathered around a campfire 400,000 ...

Archaeologists have discovered what may be the earliest evidence of deliberate fire-making.

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

Long before Homo sapiens, Neanderthals constructed circular stone formations deep inside French caves. These 175,000-year-old structures challenge everything we thought we knew about Neanderthal ...