Dental enamel suggests our extinct cousins experienced longer periods of stress during childhood.

Sonal Srivastava Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh said in a statement on Climate Change for the United Nations that ...

Modern humans (Homo sapiens) are the sole surviving representatives of the human family tree, but we're the last sentence in ...

A small team of archaeologists, two from Germany, one from Denmark and another from Iran, has identified a potential region ...

A fossil Neanderthal named for a Tolkien character indicates that geographically close groups of the ancient humans didn't ...

A new study posits a very surprising answer to one of history's great mysteries—what killed off the Neanderthals?

This area includes one of the best-known Neanderthal sites, Shanidar Cave, where the remains of ten Neanderthal individuals ...

Our Human Evolution gallery explores the origins of Homo sapiens, tracing our lineage since it split from that of our closest living relatives, the chimpanzee and the bonobo. Gallery developer Jenny ...

Neanderthal genes have been linked with our immune systems and COVID-19 response, while Denisovan genes may help adapt to high altitudes. This ancient teenager is the first known person with ...

The history of human settlement in the valleys of the Pyrenees and Pre-Pyrenees has always been closely tied to climate ...

The remains were found in Mandrin cave, known to have been home to both Neanderthals and Homo Sapiens over time” PARIS – A ...