An analysis of around a dozen teenagers who lived during the Paleolithic reveals that they hit puberty around the same time ...

Thorin — nicknamed after a dwarf in J. R. R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit" — is also called the "last Neanderthal" because he may ...

sapiens is the Omo Kibish 1 skeleton from Ethiopia, [which is] about 230,000 years old." This fossil skull has a tall, globe-shaped head and a human-like chin, which has led researchers to call it the ...

One of the "last" Neanderthal individuals has been found in a cave in France, revealing a previously unknown lineage.

The prevailing narrative of how humanity came about seemed straightforward enough: in Europe, the last Neanderthals bowed out ...

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"The brain is a 3-pound mass you can hold in your hand that can conceive of a universe 100 billion light-years across." ...

Neanderthals populated Europe, Asia until they abruptly died off 40,000 years ago File Photo: A rebuilt skull and a physical ...

Read More: 5 Skulls That Shook Up the Story of Human Evolution Ardipithecus ... similar to endangered species today. Whereas Homo sapiens had greater genetic diversity, a larger population, and ...

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

Wikipedia, the source of all earthly knowledge, defines a “person of color” as someone “who is not considered white.” It goes ...

How we do research matters just as much as what we do. Understanding something as complex as human evolution in Africa ...