Fossils, stone tools and seashells in Turkey show that Neanderthals and the Homo sapiens who moved in later had the same ...

For most of the twentieth century, the arrival of modern humans in a region was treated as something close to a replacement event for the Neanderthals who lived there before them, two populations with ...

Tens of thousands of years ago, Homo sapiens coexisted with Neanderthals, Homo neanderthalensis. Many of us living today ...

The excavation of a cave in southern Türkiye revealed evidence of shared technologies, survival strategies, and even symbolic ...

Research conducted at the Department of Biology, University of Padova, has identified critical genomic milestones in the evolution of Homo sapiens, including key chromosomal rearrangements and ...

The basic outline of the interactions between modern humans and Neanderthals is now well established. The two came in contact as modern humans began their major expansion out of Africa, which occurred ...

Burial of a 10-month-old Neanderthal with red deer jawbone leaning against the pelvis HAIFA, ISRAEL—A study conducted by Ella Been of Ono Academic College and Omry Barzilai of the University of Haifa ...

Neanderthals and modern humans have differently shaped skulls, which scientists have long assumed meant they also had different brains. But new research challenges that assumption. Mike Kemp / In ...

The Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis) fascinate researchers and the general public alike. They remain central to debates about the nature of the genus Homo (the broad biological classification that ...

Two of the traits that set modern humans apart from non-human primates are taller stature and a higher basal metabolic rate. Researchers have identified a genetic variant that contributed to the ...