Artefacts unearthed in Yunnan province display key features of toolmaking technology associated with Neanderthals much ...

Modern humans can be recognized by their smaller facial structure when compared with Neanderthals and other hominin ancestors ...

Archaeologists previously assumed that East Asia did not see considerable tool development during the Middle Paleolithic, but ...

Researchers analyzed the ancient DNA of two mummies from what is now Libya to learn about people who lived in the "Green ...

Stone tools unearthed in China's Yunnan province suggest Neanderthals or another ancient human species adapted to harsh ...

Over 100,000 years ago, a mysterious group of ancient humans walked the lands of eastern Asia. Known as the Juluren—meaning ...

The tool we've identified is called a Quina scraper. This type of stone tool is well known from archaeological sites in ...

New Teeth Analysis Reveals Humans and Neanderthals Split 800,000 Years Ago, Yet We Have a Mysterious Common Ancestor New ...

For decades, we've thought of our Neanderthal cousins as brutish, primitive beings. Second-class humans driven extinct by their own fallibility and stupidity. But as we are fast learning ...

Humans and Neanderthals didn’t just coexist – they mingled, competed, and even had children together. Neanderthals lived in Europe and Asia for hundreds of thousands of years before modern humans ...

Neanderthal DNA strengthens the immune system and regulates inflammation Denisovan genes help with altitude adaptation and oxygen use Paleogenetics reveals that human evolution is more complex ...

“This population would later contribute about 80 percent of the genetic material of modern humans and also seems to have been the ancestral population from which Neanderthals and Denisovans diverged.” ...