Simulations suggest Neanderthals were on the brink of extinction by the time our ancestors arrived on the Iberian Peninsula.

Starting a fire led to advancements such as cooking, which unlocked nutrients that improved the size and cognition of the ...

This Hemi-powered off-roader is slower, thirstier, and more expensive than the I-6 version, so why do we like it so dang much ...

In the last decade, archaeologists have learned to read the genetic traces that ancient humans and Neanderthals left not only ...

This innovative approach combines climate data, archaeological evidence, and population dynamics to simulate how Neanderthals moved across the landscape. The model reveals that by the time ...

Using a specially developed simulation model, researchers at the University of Cologne have traced and analyzed the dynamics ...

Neanderthal DNA is 99.7% identical to our own, and researchers claim that some humans might be carrying as much as 2% of the Neanderthal genome. Making things even weirder is that scientists recently ...

That could place the ancestors of Homo sapiens—modern humans—outside Africa, an idea which flips everything palaeontologists ...

An international team, involving researchers from the University of Seville, the Andalusian Institute of Earth Sciences in Granada and the University of Huelva, has identified the first fossilised ...

LONDON — Scientists in Britain say ancient humans may have learned to make fire far earlier than previously believed, after ...

These genomes are the oldest yet found of modern humans in Europe, though they were not the first hominids to walk these ...