"We know of only 10 such sites in the entire Middle East." ...

Neanderthal men were short, stocky and powerful – and our female ancestors seemed to be into it, according to a new study. It's a well–known fact that ancient humans and Neanderthals had sex, as many ...

The RINO project was born from the discovery of unusual marks on rhinoceros teeth recovered from the prehistoric Payre site ...

The time has come to reconsider an outdated understanding of human evolution: it was ...

A tiny set of ancient genetic “switches” may have played a surprisingly large role in making human language possible.

Language may feel like one of the most distinctly human things about you, but the genetic groundwork for it appears to be older than our own species. A new study from University of Iowa Health Care ...

Dating out of your league? New research says it's a tale as old as time. A study out Thursday in Science argues that Neanderthal men and human women were particularly inclined to mate, a sexual habit ...

NEW YORK — Humans and Neanderthals cozied up from time to time when they lived in the same areas tens of thousands of years ago. But we don't know much about who got with whom, or why. A new genetic ...

In this new series, Human, paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi reveals our incredible story across 300,000 years of human evolution and how – with the help of the latest discoveries – we’re learning ...