Homo sapiens’ interconnected networks gave them a survival edge over more isolated Neanderthals amid environmental changes.

University of Iowa researchers discovered human predecessors, previously thought to not be verbal, have parts of human DNA ...

For the longest time, I believed that if I ate an orange before bed, I’d perish, all because of the popular proverb: “An ...

Neanderthal intelligence may have been similar to modern humans, with research showing minimal cognitive differences between ...

A human skull (left) and a Neanderthal skull (right). (hairymuseummatt/DrMikeBaxter/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0) More ...

For a long time, Neanderthals were imagined as bulky carnivores of the Ice Age: heavy-browed hunters who lived on slabs of ...

While Homo sapiens and Neanderthals lived near each other and likely interacted, they usually preferred living in slightly ...

One has stripes, and one doesn't. But do the differences between lions and tigers go deeper than that?

Traumatic experiences can cause memory problems, and estrogen may be a key factor that shapes the brain's resilience against ...

Brain size can matter across the broad sweep of primate evolution but among humans isn't the best way to estimate ...

Neanderthals disappeared around 40,000 years ago, and one explanation given for their disappearance is that their brains were ...