Neanderthals may have been far more like us than once believed. A new review of genetic, archaeological, and fossil evidence ...

For decades, Neanderthals were thought to be our less sophisticated cousins who communicated through basic sounds and simple ...

A tiny set of ancient genetic “switches” may have played a surprisingly large role in making human language possible.

Language may feel like one of the most distinctly human things about you, but the genetic groundwork for it appears to be older than our own species. A new study from University of Iowa Health Care ...

Left: computed tomographic (CT) scan of a Neanderthal fossil (La Ferrassie 1). Right: CT scan of a modern human. Credit: Philipp Gunz, License: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 The human face is strikingly distinct ...

NEW YORK — Humans and Neanderthals cozied up from time to time when they lived in the same areas tens of thousands of years ago. But we don't know much about who got with whom, or why. A new genetic ...

Dating out of your league? New research says it's a tale as old as time. A study out Thursday in Science argues that Neanderthal men and human women were particularly inclined to mate, a sexual habit ...

In this new series, Human, paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi reveals our incredible story across 300,000 years of human evolution and how – with the help of the latest discoveries – we’re learning ...

For more than a century, human origins have been told as a story of expansion, migration, and survival. But deep in that ...