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

A controversial new study published on November 14, 2025, challenges the long-held belief that Neanderthals disappeared due ...

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

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.

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

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 ...

Human remains found inside a Belgian cave tell a grisly story of selective cannibalism among our hominid cousins.

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

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

Every face carries a story, shaped long before birth by a quiet choreography of genes switching on and off at just the right moment. A new study suggests that part of that story reaches far back into ...

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