Learn more about a long-ago excavated artifact that holds clues into the art, travel, and trade of Homo sapiens in ancient ...

For tens of thousands of years, two species — Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans — shared vast landscapes.

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Modern humans and Neanderthals shared a common ancestor, lived side by side in parts of Eurasia, and even had children together, yet their faces ended up strikingly different. The contrast between our ...

Scientists have identified the world's oldest known rock art — a hand stencil created at least 67,800 years ago in Indonesia. This artwork, nestled in a cave in southeast Sulawesi, is also the ...

New research suggests a genetic dynamic that may have contributed to Neanderthals' extinction. Neanderthal-Museum, Mettmann CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons Did interbreeding between humans and ...

Not every modern human has the same set of Neanderthal DNA, however; different people will, by chance, have inherited different fragments. But there are also some areas, termed “Neanderthal deserts,” ...

Many people today simply assume that our evolution has quietly ended with the development of the modern human. It's easy to think that medicine, science, and modern living have made us "perfect" or ...

Most modern humans with non-African ancestry carry small amounts of Neanderthal DNA across much of their genome but have little-to-none on their X chromosomes. New research from Penn challenges an old ...