When the climate cooled, the population of Neanderthals shrank. Most that lived between 60,000 and 40,000 years ago were ...

An impression made in clay around 175,000 years ago could be a kneeprint left by one of the builders of a strange stalagmite ...

Specific genomic regions that seem to play a role in human language development evolved hundreds of thousands of years ago, ...

Neanderthals may not only have feasted on rhinoceroses, they may also have used their exceptionally hard teeth as specialized ...

If you look at a Neanderthal skull and a Homo sapiens skull, they’re visibly different: Neanderthal skulls are lower and longer, whereas ours tend to be rounder. However, those differences probably ...

Neanderthal intelligence may have been similar to modern humans, with research showing minimal cognitive differences between ...

Homo sapiens’ interconnected networks gave them a survival edge over more isolated Neanderthals amid environmental changes.

Explore new research suggesting Neanderthal extinction was due to poor social connectivity, not climate change or competition ...

A latest study utilizing advanced spatial modeling has revealed that neither climate change nor direct competition with early modern humans can fully explain the disappearance of Neanderthals from ...

University of Iowa researchers discovered human predecessors, previously thought to not be verbal, have parts of human DNA ...