The first-ever published research out of Tinshemet Cave indicates the two human species regularly interacted and shared technologies and customs.

Scientists have uncovered evidence that modern humans emerged from two long-separated ancestral groups, not just one. This ...

The climate and early human societies were changing quickly during the fall of our closest evolutionary relative—and are big ...

Our closest extinct relatives, Neanderthals, existed thousands of years ago. Here are 10 interesting facts about their lives, brains, and survival. Neanderthals existed in Europe and Asia from ...

Neanderthals and Homo sapiens shared technology and customs in the Levant, shaping early human culture through cooperation.

The new approach to radiocarbon dating could soon be applied to other Paleolithic human sites, improving our understanding of ...

Discovered in Portugal in 1998, the individual dubbed the “Lapedo Child” has long perplexed scientists, thanks to a curious mix of features ...

Some 100,000 years ago, a group of hominins shared hunting strategies ... They were groups of archaic Neanderthal-like Homo, Neanderthals and Homo sapiens. “These groups interacted and developed ...

Studies have shown that late Neanderthals were a fairly uniform group by the beginning of the Late Pleistocene. This reduced variation might be the result of a bottleneck event—a decline in ...

Scientists have made a surprising discovery about our ancient past: modern humans didn’t come from just one ancestral group, ...

In 1998, a group of students found the Lapedo child after the group ... but also had other features derived from Neanderthals, including body proportions. At the time, they described it as a “mosaic” ...

The researchers suggested that the child was descended from populations in which humans and Neanderthals mated and ... s Science and Educational Media Group and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.