The new research showed that both chimpanzees and Neanderthals had larger, faster-growing faces, while modern humans have ...

The Nobel Prize winner in Medicine is investigating genetic changes that could have given our species a competitive advantage ...

New analysis of a 140,000-year-old skull morphologically resembling modern humans and Neanderthals may be the earliest example of interbreeding between the two groups.

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Modern humans and Neanderthals were interacting 100,000 years earlier than previously thought, according to researchers who used CT scans and 3D mapping to study the bones of a ...

Life demanded attention to every detail—tracking, hunting, crafting, and planning. These folks adapted naturally, relying on ...

Learn more about a jewelry-making site from the Châtelperronian culture, a tradition tied to the Neanderthal-to-modern human transition in Western Europe.

Teeth, bones, ornaments and stone tools from the Bacho Kiro cave in current-day Bulgaria have revealed that the first modern humans were settled in Europe as early as 47,000 years ago, according to ...

On the slopes of Mount Carmel in northern Israel, a small skull has changed the story of human history. Buried in Skhul Cave roughly 140,000 years ago, the remains of a five-year-old child show that ...