Re-examination of a circa 100,000-year-old archaic early human skull found 35 years ago in Northern China has revealed the surprising presence of an inner-ear formation long thought to occur only in ...

New analysis of Neanderthal bones from Belgium indicates targeted cannibalism of outsiders that may signal territorial conflict before their regional disappearance.

When Neanderthals and ancient modern humans interbred, the pairings were mostly between male Neanderthals and female humans. This finding helps ...

Life in the Ice Age was no walk in the park, yet Neanderthals managed to endure hundreds of thousands of years of repeated glaciations, only to perish just a few dozen millennia b ...

A study shows that interbreeding between the two species occurred primarily in one direction, and the origin of this bias is ...