New Teeth Analysis Reveals Humans and Neanderthals Split 800,000 Years Ago, Yet We Have a Mysterious Common Ancestor New ...

By comparing modern human, Neanderthal, and chimpanzee skulls, researchers have uncovered a unique trait having to do with ...

Early human evolution may have been more complex than scientists previously thought, with modern humans evolving from two ...

The human face is strikingly distinct from our fossil cousins and ancestors—most notably, it is significantly smaller, and ...

Scientists discovered humans descended from two ancient populations, not one. These groups split 1.5 million years ago.

Your Neanderthal genes might be the reason you fight infections better- find out how ancient DNA shapes your health!

Scientists have uncovered evidence that modern humans emerged from two long-separated ancestral groups, not just one. This ...

Unlike Neanderthal DNA, which makes up roughly 2% of the genome of non-African modern humans, this ancient mixing event ...

New study challenges the theory that Neanderthals originated after an evolutionary event that implied the loss of part of ...

Modern humans have uniquely small and flat faces, especially compared with our Neanderthal cousins' notoriously robust faces ...

In a study published Monday (March 24) in the Journal of Human Evolution ... that both chimpanzees and Neanderthals had larger, faster-growing faces, while modern humans have smaller faces ...