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

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

Scientists have long debated how modern humans evolved. For decades, most researchers agreed that Homo sapiens came from one ...

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The climate and early human societies were changing quickly during the fall of our closest evolutionary relative—and are big clues to the causes of their demise. This reconstruction of a ...

Before now, the earliest evidence of humans (Homo sapiens) living in rainforest environments dated to 70,000 years ago in Asia and Oceania, and only 18,000 years ago in Africa.