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

The first complete genetic portrait of a so‑called “last Neanderthal” is forcing scientists to redraw the map of our origins, ...

For thousands of years, Europeans had dark skin. New DNA reveals that pale skin only became common in Europe just 3,000 years ...

Philosophically, academics and global media have to do better to explain why Home sapiens, a sentient and potentially sapient species, has started the Sixth Extinction.

Scientists trace the origins of human kissing back over 20 million years to ancient apes who first showed gentle ...

Human faces are famously flatter than those of other primates. Neanderthals, by contrast, had prominent, projecting midfaces ...

An exceptionally preserved Neanderthal skull suggests that their nasal passages were not specialized cold weather equipment.

Neanderthals left behind various clues about their enigmatic lives. But less is known about their spiritual sides. Some ...

Learn more about the diseases Neanderthals endured and how their weakened immune system and encounters with humans made them ...

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

A new study analyzes the nasal cavity of the "Altamura Man," a Neanderthal who died between 130,000 and 172,000 years ago ...

The study of an assemblage of Neanderthal human bones discovered in the Troisième caverne of Goyet (Belgium) has brought to ...