It is hard to imagine a time when modern humans shared the planet with them, and even harder to draw any concrete similarities. Yet, a new study has done just that, uncovering several similarities ...

Neanderthals, far from being primitive, organised their living spaces much like modern humans do, a new study reveals. Researchers analysing artefacts and features of the Riparo Bombrini site in ...

Researchers say they have found evidence that humans were living in the Americas thousands of years earlier ... thought on the peopling of the Americas—a hotly debated topic among experts. One ...

Why did humans take over the world while our closest ... Stone circles found inside caves may be Neanderthal shrines. Like modern hunter-gatherers, Neanderthal lives were probably steeped in ...

Finlayson, Clive Fa, Darren A. Finlayson, Geraldine Pacheco, Francisco Giles and Vidal, Joaquin Rodrı́guez 2004. Did the moderns kill off the Neanderthals? A reply to F. d’Errico and Sánchez Goñi.

The reasons for the demise of the Neanderthals some 30 thousand years ago, only a few millennia after the first appearance of modern humans in Europe, remain controversial, and are a focus of ...

Until recently, most human evolution experts thought ... modern languages today. He is proposing that words, which – through their sounds or length – describe the objects they stand for, were almost ...

A study published in Science in 2018 found evidence that some Palaeolithic artwork in Spain was made by Neanderthals, as they dated to a time long before modern humans were in the region. Created ...

Estimates vary but perhaps 100,000 years ago, modern humans migrated out of Africa ... But the Altai Neanderthals often had one version of each gene. As the study reports, that low diversity suggests ...