A new study finds tiny Neanderthal DNA differences shaped their powerful jaws, revealing how small genetic changes influence ...

An international team, involving researchers from the University of Seville, the Andalusian Institute of Earth Sciences in ...

A study scanned genomes from over 450,000 people to find individuals who carry rare archaic versions of DNA changes once ...

Study on skull of Altamura Man could be blow to adaptation theories about Neanderthals and their extinction ...

That could place the ancestors of Homo sapiens—modern humans—outside Africa, an idea which flips everything palaeontologists ...

A study shows Neanderthals made first fire in Britain 400,000 years ago, pushing back the timeline of controlled fire use by ...

"We think humans brought pyrite to the site with the intention of making fire. And this has huge implications, pushing back ...

Learn more about how researchers can take evidence from the past to better shape our idea of what Neanderthals looked like.

The actors George Clooney and Adam Sandler share their personal favourites with Radio 1's Ali Plumb and talk about which ...

These genomes are the oldest yet found of modern humans in Europe, though they were not the first hominids to walk these ...

An international team, involving researchers from the University of Seville, the Andalusian Institute of Earth Sciences in Granada and the University of Huelva, has identified the first fossilised ...

Superstition survives not because people are ignorant, but because pattern-seeking brains, anxiety, and culture reward ...