Neanderthals may have been far more like us than once believed. A new review of genetic, archaeological, and fossil evidence ...

The Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH) has led the international team behind a new study ...

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 ...

Dental microwear analysis, which allows for the microscopic study of surface textures, confirmed that the marks were made ...

Leading researchers in human evolution will meet in Gibraltar in September for the 30th Calpe Conference, organised by the ...

Left: computed tomographic (CT) scan of a Neanderthal fossil (La Ferrassie 1). Right: CT scan of a modern human. Credit: Philipp Gunz, License: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 The human face is strikingly distinct ...

In this new series, Human, paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi reveals our incredible story across 300,000 years of human ...

Cavemen gathered shellfish to eat using the same methods as modern humans, according to new research. Neanderthals in southern Europe collected mollusks throughout the year — with a marked preference ...