Paradigm-shattering discovery reveals that the relationship between early humans and Neanderthals was more complex than ...

Fragments of shaped ivory discovered at a Lower Paleolithic site in western Ukraine may be the oldest known ivory tools ever ...

The gap between genetics and archaeology leaves us with an unclear picture of where the Neanderthals originated. Columnist ...

In the aftermath of Earth’s most catastrophic extinction event, one unlikely survivor rose to dominate a shattered world: ...

The idea that modern humans inherited DNA from Neanderthal ancestors is one of the 21st century’s most celebrated discoveries ...