DNA and stone tool comparisons suggest Eastern European Neandertals trekked 3,000 kilometers to Siberia, where they left a genetic and cultural mark.

Recent scientific findings suggest that Neanderthals were more susceptible to lead poisoning than their Homo sapiens ...

Lead poisoning isn’t just an industrial-age problem. A new study reveals our ancestors, including Neanderthals, were exposed ...

A tiny bone from Starosele Cave, Crimea, has yielded ancient DNA showing it belonged to a Neanderthal dubbed “Star 1”.

Fossils from Atapuerca, Spain reveal Homo antecessor, the earliest known humans in Western Europe. Dating back 1.2 million ...

Scientists found that one tiny DNA change in the NOVA1 gene helped modern humans resist lead exposure that harmed ...

Lead exposure may have spelled evolutionary success for humans—and extinction for our ancient cousins—but other scientists ...

Uranium dating places the age of the Petralona skull at 300,000 years, revealing a human lineage distinct from Neanderthals and sapiens.

Once depicted as barbaric, grunting, sub-humans, Neanderthals are now known to have had the same or similar levels of intelligence as modern humans. They also had their own distinct culture. Here we ...

Several hominid species were consistently exposed to lead for almost two million years, which may have given modern humans a ...

Our preconceptions are often challenged when we engage with people cross-culturally. What might we discover if we turn that ...

Long before factories, mines, and cars filled the air with pollution, our distant ancestors were already living with a silent ...