A Lost Chapter in Human History Today, Homo sapiens stands alone as the only surviving human species. But if we step back ...

Workers cleared a German cave in 1856 and tossed out strange bones. Later studies show why those scraps changed science.

I have spent years covering discoveries that nudge our origin story around the edges, but the sequencing of DNA from one of the very last Neanderthals does something different: it rewrites the center ...

Learn about a new mathematical model that suggests Neanderthals never went extinct and, instead, became modern humans. For decades, Neanderthals have been cast as the supporting characters in our ...

The Making of a Prehistoric Human by Peter Sahlins charts the ascent of an idea from prehistory to popular culture.

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Here's what you'll learn when you read this story: The footprints along Portugal’s shifting coastal ...

A new modeling study suggests that greater connectivity between groups may have given Homo sapiens the edge over Neanderthals. Why Neanderthals went extinct and Homo sapiens established a lasting ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Here's what you'll learn when you read this story: The oldest-known hominin track sites found in southwest Europe provide clues to ...

Ancient footprints found near the shores of Portugal's Algarve region are giving us fresh insights into the lives of coastal-dwelling Neanderthals. An international study led by Carlos Neto de ...

Anthropologists have spent centuries piecing together the story of human history. For every fascinating detail they unearth, there are others that are rather, uh, unsavory. A new analysis of human ...

Scientists have known for a while that Neanderthals occasionally mated with humans eons ago. But a study in Science adds a new layer of knowledge to the subject: It turns out that much of this mating ...