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

Early human evolution may have been more complex than scientists previously thought, with modern humans evolving from two ...

Modern humans have uniquely small and flat faces, especially compared with our Neanderthal cousins' notoriously robust faces ...

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

"Our history is far richer and more complex than we imagined," said human evolutionary geneticist Aylwyn Scally.

The oldest in Western Europe, this fractured skull has introduced a series of new questions about early humanity.

Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long before modern humans spread across the globe.

The team did so for the first time in 1994, when they unearthed the remains of a new human species, which they named Homo ...

New genetic research suggests that humans first developed language around 135,000 years ago when populations began ...

Humans' unique language capacity was present at least 135,000 years ago, according to a survey of genomic evidence. As such, language might have entered social use 100,000 years ago.