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

Cambridge University researchers have uncovered evidence that two distinct populations of ancient hominins, separated for ...

Neanderthal genes seem to have hung around long after Neanderthals themselves did, as new scientific dating of the famed ...

who says that human populations in both Africa and Eurasia contributed to the evolution of anatomically modern humans (Figure 1; Wolpoff et al., 2000). Just as scientists have used mtDNA to ...

Until now, at least 14 different species have been assigned to the genus Homo since it emerged in Ethiopia some 2.8 million ...

In 1998, the Lapedo Child rose to fame as it astonishingly carried human and Neanderthal genes. Twenty-seven years later, scientists finally dated the special child, highlighting how far the ...

Your Neanderthal genes might be the reason you fight infections better- find out how ancient DNA shapes your health!

suggests that behavioral modernity arose as an advantageous genetic mutation resulting in neural reorganization that spread rapidly among existing populations of anatomically modern humans perhaps ...

Show 6: "The Mind's Big Bang" (one hour) Anatomically, modern humans existed more than 100,000 years ago, but with no art and with only crude technology and primitive social interaction.