Recent archaeological excavations in Crimea have unearthed a fascinating aspect of Neanderthal culture: the crafting and use ...

Recent research on human evolution suggests that the extinction of our Neanderthal cousins may have been hastened by ...

Humans and our ancestors have been exposed to lead for 2 million years, but the toxic metal may have actually helped our ...

Allan Bryant scans the sky as he watches over a minutes-old calf huddled under a tree line with its mother. Bryant, hoping ...

A study comparing lead exposure in Neanderthals, human ancestors and 20th-century humans poses a series of questions for further study.

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

Edited volume of papers from a conference of the same name held at New York University, Jan. 27-29, 2005. Contents Neanderthals revisited / K. Harvati and T. Harrison -- The distinctiveness and ...

We now have only the second high-quality genome from an ancient Denisovan human, which reveals there were more populations of ...

In their new study an international team led by the University of Vienna reports the discovery and extraction of ancient DNA ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. When scientists sequenced the Neanderthal genome in 2010, they learned that Neanderthals ...

Discover how Homo sapiens outlasted Neanderthals – and how they helped make us who we are today. For 400,000 years, Neanderthals thrived across frigid, Ice Age Europe. What happened when Homo sapiens ...

One of the biggest mysteries in human evolution has just been solved. In 2010, a groundbreaking genetic analysis revealed that east Asia was once home to a previously unknown group of enigmatic ...