A tiny Crimean bone links Neanderthals to Siberia, revealing long-distance networks shaped by shifting climates and migration ...

Two weeks’ walk can be an eternity in prehistory. In southern France’s Rhône Valley, a Neanderthal by the name of “Thorin” ...

Discover new clues about how our ancient relatives disappeared from time. Despite its proximity to other groups of ...

Every face carries a story, shaped long before birth by a quiet choreography of genes switching on and off at just the right ...

I have spent years covering discoveries that nudge our origin story around the edges, but the sequencing of DNA from one of ...

Subtle genomic variations between humans and Neanderthals provide clues to how DNA shapes our facial features.

By comparing the human and Neanderthal genomes, the researchers discovered only three single-letter differences in a short ...

A study of Neanderthal bones has found evidence of ‘light, selective’ cannibalism targeting women and girls some 40-odd ...

Every human face is unique, allowing us to distinguish between individuals. We know little about how facial features are encoded in our DNA, but we may be able to learn more about how our faces ...

Neanderthals are usually seen as brutish and primitive, but research now suggests our ancestors kissed often - and even with ...

A new study from Oxford University shows that humans and Neanderthals most likely kissed each other back in the distant past.

Evidence from a prehistoric cave system indicates non-ritualistic cannibalism of Neanderthal women and children.