Recent research on human evolution suggests that the extinction of our Neanderthal cousins may have been hastened by ...

the use of ochre by human cultures was the result of a slow evolution, with ancient roots, involving different fossil human ...

A small blood gene difference made Neanderthal pregnancies with modern humans risky, possibly contributing to their disappearance.

Neanderthals are getting a well-deserved scientific rewrite. A growing body of paleoarchaeological evidence indicates that ...

We now have only the second high-quality genome from an ancient Denisovan human, which reveals there were more populations of ...

Humans and our ancestors have been exposed to lead for 2 million years, but the toxic metal may have actually helped our ...

Neanderthals were meat eaters, but new analyses show that their diets included other morsels. Neanderthals, our extinct ...

A tiny bone from Starosele Cave, Crimea, has yielded ancient DNA showing it belonged to a Neanderthal dubbed “Star 1”.

When scientists found the skull, named Yunxian 2, they assumed it belonged to an earlier ancestor of ours, Homo erectus, the ...

In their new study an international team led by the University of Vienna reports the discovery and extraction of ancient DNA ...

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

Long before factories, mines, and cars filled the air with pollution, our distant ancestors were already living with a silent ...