An international study of infant remains from 50,000–75,000 years ago has provided new evidence about the developmental ...

A tiny set of ancient genetic “switches” may have played a surprisingly large role in making human language possible.

A discovery in France's Bruniquel Cave reveals Neanderthals built complex stone rings 176,000 years ago. This challenges old ...

Ancient Neanderthal DNA passed down for 40,000 years is now affecting how humans fight off modern viruses, making some ...

A tiny portion of the human genome may have had a surprisingly large impact on our ability to develop language. New research ...

One of the individuals with a crushed skull and other skeletal parts of an adult Neanderthal was taken from a shallow scoop grave covered with stones. This was the research team’s first meeting with ...

Modern humans who lived close to the equator were found to be more likely to be able to digest bugs, but this ability ...

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A face from 146000 years ago is a mystery to scientists but may be the missing link to a generation of ancient humans we ...

The out-of-Africa migration, in which ancient humans went on to inhabit every other continent except Antarctica, may not have ...

Chinese scientists have analysed the skull, which dates back almost 150,000 years, and have come to a groundbreaking ...

Archaeologists excavating a prehistoric cave south of Haifa have uncovered what researchers describe as a rare time capsule from a poorly understood stage of human evolution, dating back ...