Why do no two human faces look quite the same? Although we all follow the same biological blueprint, our features—the curve ...

Kissing is more than just "mouth-to-mouth" touching, and the study doesn't really shed much light on why humans kiss the way ...

I see the Nesher Ramla Homo fossils as a rare chance to watch human evolution get rewritten in real time. A few fragmentary ...

A new study that examines how kissing evolved suggests that ape ancestors and early humans like Neanderthals probably locked ...

It is not a recent cultural development. A new study in Evolution and Human Behavior suggests kissing may date back 21 ...

A long-standing debate in paleontology about whether the distinctive Neanderthal nose evolved purely for the cold weather may ...

A groundbreaking DNA discovery reveals how Neanderthals crossed vast distances.

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

Neanderthals may have never truly gone extinct, according to new research – at least not in the genetic sense.

The prehistoric Jomon people of Japan had "unexpectedly low" levels of DNA from the Denisovans, our mysterious human ...

A small bone from Starosele Cave in Crimea has changed how we see Neanderthals. With a length of about two inches (five centimeters), the bone held DNA from a Neanderthal who lived over 45,000 years ...

In their new study an international team led by the University of Vienna reports the discovery and extraction of ancient DNA from a tiny 5 cm long Neanderthal bone found in the Crimean peninsula, ...