By comparing modern human, Neanderthal, and chimpanzee skulls, researchers have uncovered a unique trait having to do with ...

Human faces are famously flatter than those of other primates. Neanderthals, by contrast, had prominent, projecting midfaces ...

The climate and early human societies were changing quickly during the fall of our closest evolutionary relative—and are big ...

Neanderthal genes seem to have hung around long after Neanderthals themselves did, as new scientific dating of the famed ...

Discovered in Portugal in 1998, the individual dubbed the “Lapedo Child” has long perplexed scientists, thanks to a curious mix of features ...

The new approach to radiocarbon dating could soon be applied to other Paleolithic human sites, improving our understanding of ...

The human face is strikingly distinct from our fossil cousins and ancestors—most notably, it is significantly smaller, and ...

Neanderthals and Homo sapiens shared technology and customs in the Levant, shaping early human culture through cooperation.

We don't have it before,” says Zaidner. “And it occurs across all the sites, regardless of whether [the makers had] more archaic Homo sapiens features or more Neanderthal features.” What’s more, ...

Neanderthal genes seem to have hung around long after Neanderthals themselves did, as new scientific dating of the famed ...