A space physicist has suggested that a reversal of the Earth’s magnetic poles may have wiped out the Neanderthals.

Ancient humans in Africa changed their behaviour in a major way 70,000 years ago, which could explain how their descendants managed to people the rest of the world ...

Read this comparison of the Neanderthals vs Homo Sapiens to uncover how much we differ despite evolving from the same ancestors.

A groundbreaking study reveals a 140,000-year-old child skull found in Israel may represent the first identified hybrid ...

Modern humans (Homo sapiens) are the only existing members of the human family tree. However, our evolutionary journey began around 6 million years ago and gave rise to at least 18 species, ...

The author of “Sapiens” says that for the first time in tens of thousands of years, humanity has competition. And it’s coming ...

Homo sapiens: we’ve been through a lot these past 300,000 or so years. Now we have our own TV show.

A new documentary brings early human history to life with a "scientifically accurate" collection of hyper-real 3D models.

Significant brain defects known as Chiari malformations could be down the genes some of us have inherited from Neanderthals, ...

New research reveals a hidden geometric ratio in Leonardo’s drawing that may define the endpoint of human evolution toward ...