Modern humans wandered in from the southeast and found a continent already home to a very different kind of human: the ...

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

In 1958, a seemingly insignificant discovery made by farmers in the Guangdong province of southern China would soon challenge ...

Learn more about a new simulation that predicts how Neanderthals migrated from Eastern Europe to Eurasia.

New research reveals that our extinct Neanderthal relatives were surprisingly savvy navigators who used rivers to zip across ...

New research follows a distinct lineage of bedbugs that lived alongside humans for thousands of years, suggesting they might ...

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

Modern humans likely encountered Neanderthals in Europe around 45,000 years ago—and got to know each other rather closely. About 21,500 generations now sit between us and our extinct hominin ...

Instead, various traits we associate with anatomically modern humans probably appeared in a type of “mosaic evolution” that Neanderthals also seem to have exhibited. Modern humankind “wasn ...

A plant based diet is one of the hottest trends in Hollywood these days, and some stars take the lifestyle into their work, ...

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