Scientists now know that they shared many of the sophisticated abilities of Homo sapiens. So why are we the only humans left ...

(Cícero Moraes) Scientists have used human fossils from Morocco to create a digital face from around 315,000 years ago. The ...

A Brief History of Humankind'. A major question posed in the first half of this book isWhy is it that Homo sapiens is the ...

Why are we so obsessed with a group of prehistoric humans who disappeared some 40,000 years ago? Ever since the discovery of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE PHOTO: An AI-reconstructed image, created at Tel Aviv University, shows a mixed Neanderthal–Homo Sapiens family. Image ...

Neanderthals are Homo sapiens's closest-known relative, and today we know we rubbed shoulders with them for thousands of years, up until the very end of their long reign some 40,000 years ago. Most ...

A small team of archaeologists, two from Germany, one from Denmark and another from Iran, has identified a potential region for interbreeding between Neanderthals and Homo sapiens during the Late ...

In a study published in the Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, archaeologists from Université de Montréal and the University of Genoa reveal that far from being more primitive, Neanderthals ...

An international team, led by Jean-Jacques Hublin of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and Abdelouahed Ben-Ncer of the National Institute for Archaeology and Heritage, discovered ...

A child’s tooth unearthed from a French cave has revealed the earliest evidence of humans – Homo sapiens – living in western Europe. The discovery of the molar from Grotte Mandrin, near Malataverne in ...

More than half a century ago, Chinese researchers uncovered thousands of pieces of an ancient cultural puzzle. Their summertime excavation about halfway up a hill overlooking northern China’s Shiyu ...