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

For nearly a century, scientists have been puzzling over fossils from a strange and robust-looking distant relative of early ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

If you regularly experience headaches, dizziness, balance problems and blurred vision, our Neanderthal cousins could be to ...

"Humans picked up some Neanderthal DNA through interbreeding, while the Neanderthal population, always fairly small, was ...