Neanderthals and Homo sapiens shared technology and customs in the Levant, shaping early human culture through cooperation.

More than just mere cavemen, our Stone Age kin exhibited intelligence in surprising ways, making them more human than ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence that modern humans emerged from two long-separated ancestral groups, not just one. This ...

Homo sapiens may have evolved good distance-running abilities, but Neanderthals were probably stronger and faster over short ...

"Neanderthals' and Homo sapiens' interactions were not just sporadic encounters, but they had very substantial contacts which ...

Discoveries in Tinshemet Cave reveals that the relationship between early humans and Neanderthals was more complex than originally thought.

"Our history is far richer and more complex than we imagined," said human evolutionary geneticist Aylwyn Scally.

Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long before modern humans spread across the globe.

A new genetic study suggests humans developed language at least 135,000 years ago, reshaping our understanding of early ...

Early Homo sapiens shared the planet with other human species like Neanderthals and Homo erectus, but gradually emerged as the dominant species due to advancements in tools, social structures ...

A groundbreaking discovery reveals Homo sapiens descended from two ancestral groups, not one. This complex origin story ...