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 new study suggests Neanderthals didn’t go extinct simply because of climate change or competition with Homo sapiens. Instead, the key difference may have been social connectivity—Homo sapiens formed ...

Neanderthals' brains were not the reason behind their extinction, suggests a shocking new study. Scientists believed that ...

A new study found that a pachyderm skeleton, dismissed for decades as unimportant, offers evidence of careful planning, ...

Specific genomic regions that seem to play a role in human language development evolved hundreds of thousands of years ago, ...

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

When the climate cooled, the population of Neanderthals shrank. Most that lived between 60,000 and 40,000 years ago were ...

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