When we look back tens of thousands of years, it is easy to assume that ancient humans simply vanished under the weight of ...

Two species of humans occupied the same small cave in southern Türkiye across a span of roughly 20,000 years, and the stone tools and shell beads they left behind look strikingly alike. Neanderthals ...

As we live through an era of rapid expansion in our understanding of our distant ancestors, the Neanderthals, we’re learning they may not have been so distant after all. According to a new study ...

Finds from caves in Turkey and Israel hint that different types of humans exchanged ideas even as they remained biologically distinct. | Credit: Naoki Morimoto. Deep in a limestone cave on Turkey's ...

We’re living through a golden age of archaeological discovery about our distant cousins, the Neanderthals. We’ve recently learned they were much more intelligent than we used to give them credit for, ...

Some modern humans might be taller and more muscular because of a Neanderthal-derived gene variant that affects the growth hormone pathway. Pixabay Neanderthals lived across Europe and Asia between ...

Neanderthal pelvis bones kept an older design, while the modern male pelvis became a shock absorber that returns energy at ...

Fuhlrott's theory arrived two years before Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species, at a time when the concept of ...

It’s rare that ancient DNA from Neanderthals remains as intact as scientists would like. But on the lucky occasion that researchers do find high-quality genomes, the implications are ...

Benjamin holds a Master's degree in anthropology from University College London and has previously worked in the fields of psychedelic neuroscience and mental health. Benjamin holds a Master's degree ...

Neanderthal babies have always been hard to study, mostly because their remains are so rare. That scarcity has left one of the oldest arguments in human origins unsettled: were Neanderthals following ...

A new Tel Aviv University study challenges assumptions about the Neanderthal pelvis, finding that modern human males evolved a distinct walking mechanism.