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

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

Researchers studying animal behaviour say mouth-to-mouth kissing likely appeared in the common ancestor of humans and great apes more than 21 million years ago.

Humans aren’t the only ones who kiss—monkeys do it, polar bears do it, and now research suggests that the practice may go ...

Kissing stretches back roughly 21 million years, to the shared ancestor of humans and other large apes, according to the ...

Kissing is an ancient trait retained over the course of evolution amongst the large apes, reveal scientists at the University ...

A new study looks at how the mouth-on-mouth smooch came into being, and concludes that Neanderthals also kissed.

Rather than being a recent cultural development, kissing may have been practised by other early humans like Neanderthals and ...

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

Every human face is different, but scientists still know surprisingly little about how our DNA shapes these differences. To ...

New research suggests Neanderthals didn't face a sudden extinction but were gradually absorbed into the growing human ...

Learn about a new mathematical model that suggests Neanderthals never went extinct and, instead, became modern humans.