The fingerprint, discovered on a painted pebble in a Spanish cave, represents the oldest known evidence of Neanderthal ...

New research has uncovered an extraordinary discovery that challenges our understanding of early human evolution. A young ...

The print was discovered in red ochre pigment on a granite stone at the Abrigo de San Lázaro site near Segovia ...

Archaeologists have long debated the origin of human symbolic behavior. The dominant idea was that only modern humans (Homo sapiens) were capable of complex symbolic thought and behavior; such as ...

Scientists sequenced the genomes of 2,762 individuals across India, revealing the country’s unique ancestral makeup and a ...

The new study, published in Cell by Qiaomei Fu and colleagues, is the first to definitively link a nearly complete human ...

The placenta and the hormones it produces may have played a crucial role in the evolution of the human brain, while also ...

The mysterious ancient humans were only known from fossil fragments. Now, two papers argue a skull uncovered in China belongs ...

The placenta and the hormones it produces may have played a crucial role in the evolution of the human brain, while also ...

The Harbin skull (left) and the Dali skull (right).

Researchers compared the features of the labyrinth in the pre-Neanderthal specimens, ... Classic Neanderthals came into existence around 70,000 years ago and went extinct 40,000 years ago.

THE face of humans’ most mysterious ancestor has finally been uncovered after 217,000 years. The discovery proves that the ...