A unique archaeological find has recently expanded our knowledge of Neanderthals' capacity for symbolic thought. The object ...

About 150 scientists gathered at the Society of Catholic Scientists conference for talks that touched on the Thomistic notion ...

When you imagine the evolution of homosapien it’s easy to imagine our great ape ancestors turning into upright versions and eventually becoming neanderthals and then modern humans. However, our ...

Findings suggest the presence of cultural remains from homo heidelbergensis or even older species before neanderthals.

Neanderthals may have trekked thousands of miles across Eurasia much faster than we ever imagined. New computer simulations ...

Computer simulated paths of Neanderthal dispersals demonstrate they could have reached the Altai Mountains in Siberia within 2,000 years during warm climatic conditions in one of two ancient time ...

Recent scholarship has concluded that Neanderthals made a second major migration from Eastern Europe to Central and Eastern ...

N eanderthals managed to survive in Eurasia until around 40,000 years ago, but research indicates their population began ...

Around one hundred and fourty six thousand years ago, a species of human cropped up in the fossil record from Harbin, a city ...

Discover interesting facts about the origin of the human species and what makes us different from our ape cousins.

New Israeli research suggests large game was smoked as early as 1.8 million years ago, a survival strategy that may have ...