A fresh study suggests that some of humanity’s earliest “geometric thinking” wasn’t scratched onto cave walls, but etched into ostrich eggshells used by Ice Age people in southern Africa. By measuring ...

Geneticists have a better understanding of how prehistoric pairings unfolded, with new research suggesting they were mostly ...

When ancient humans interbred, new research shows that the pairings were predominantly male Neanderthals and female Homo ...

But the next time you squash one of these bloodsuckers, consider this: you are participating in a bitter rivalry that goes back to the time of Homo erectus. It turns out that mosquitoes have been ...

Perhaps human females found Neanderthal males to be high-status providers. Or perhaps Neanderthal society was “patrilocal” — meaning women moved to join the man’s family — while human society was the ...

Their symbols, the compass and square, are meant to represent reason and faith. Their lodges, they insist, are temples of moral instruction. But behind the carefully guarded doors of those lodges, a ...

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

Until now it was thought that writing developed in Mesopotamia around 3,000 BCE, followed by hieroglyphics in Egypt and later in China and Mesoamerica. "The Stone Age sign sequences are an early ...

Since 2010, scientists have known that Neanderthals and our ancestors had offspring together, and those hybrid babies passed down their genes to many present-day people. But the idea of “archaic ...

Genomic analysis shows that interbreeding between female Neanderthals and human males was less common than the opposite ...

New research into the interbreeding patterns between Neanderthals and Homo sapiens reveals that male Neanderthals primarily mated with female Homo sapiens. The findings challenge previous assumptions ...