Researchers examining the brains of living people found that they differed more substantially than Neanderthals' brains ...

According to the study, Amud 7’s remains date to approximately 51,000 and 56,000 years ago and belong to the most complete ...

In 2001 scientists studying human language made a breakthrough: by looking at the DNA of a family with a rare speech ...

A massive study of ancient and modern DNA from thousands of West Eurasian people has identified nearly 500 genetic variants ...

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Scientists have uncovered a surprising new picture of human origins that challenges the long-held idea of a single ancestral ...

A new study of a Neanderthal toddler reveals that our closest evolutionary relatives' growth patterns differed from those of ...

Archaeologists in Israel unearthed prehistoric hand axes that Homo erectus crafted from stones including fossils and crystals ...

Learn more about Human Ancestor Quickly Evolved Regions (HAQERs), genetic regulatory regions that may have shaped language ...

Baby Neanderthals may have been much larger and grown much more quickly than their modern Homo sapiens counterparts, ...

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

Many people today simply assume that our evolution has quietly ended with the development of the modern human. It's easy to think that medicine, science, and modern living have made us "perfect" or ...