Around the world, on separate continents with no contact with each other, multiple groups of ancient humans invented farming ...

Recent fossil analysis is reshaping our understanding of Neanderthal origins, questioning long-held assumptions about their ...

New study challenges the theory that Neanderthals originated after an evolutionary event that implied the loss of part of ...

For decades, scientists have believed that meat-eating drove human evolution, particularly our enlarged brains.

Did early humans have rules for how words could be strung together? What impact did this have on their brains and behaviour?

A newly excavated cave in Israel holds burials and artifacts suggesting that multiple human species commingled and shared ...

A small team of computational and evolutionary biologists from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Zhongshan ...

Scientists examining an ancient cave have made a discovery about humanity's history that dates back some 110,000 years.

A fossil of a partial face from a human ancestor is the oldest in western Europe, archaeologists reported Wednesday. The incomplete skull — a section of the left cheek bone and ...

Scientists have successfully dated the remains of the Lapedo Child, which possesses a "mosaic" of Human and Neanderthal ...

A recent archaeological discovery in Tinshemet Cave, located in central Israel, has provided compelling evidence that ...

The first-ever published research out of Tinshemet Cave indicates the two human species regularly interacted and shared ...