What caused their disappearance? Or are they still among us, having integrated into Homo sapiens through interbreeding?

An ancient granite pebble included indentations resembling a face, its nose a red dot. A study says it may have had symbolic ...

Maba 1 also suffered trauma before death, but the specific cause of the trauma remains unknown.

A partial skull discovered in Apidima Cave on the Mani Peninsula in Southern Greece has revealed that Homo sapiens were the first humans to leave Africa, challenging previous assumptions about ...

In the depths of the San Lázaro rock-shelter in Segovia, Central Spain, archaeologists from the Complutense University of ...

We are just one branch of a diverse human family tree. Aside from Neanderthals, who were they – and why did we replace them?

The ongoing intrigue should come as no surprise because, for a long time, Neanderthals were the model for the missing link between our own species, Homo sapiens, and the first apelike pre-human ...

Homo sapiens, that has since gone extinct. So what does the science say? In particular, what does the genetic evidence, which didn't exist back when many early hominins were first discovered ...

The first-ever published research on Tinshemet Cave reveals that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens in the mid-Middle Paleolithic Levant not only coexisted but actively interacted, sharing technology ...

For decades, the accepted theory of human migration suggested that Homo sapiens arrived to America around 15,000 years ago, and that they were the very first humans to roam North America.

The study found that humans left Africa, encountered and interbred with Neanderthals in three waves: One about 200,000 to 250,000 years ago, not long after the very first Homo sapiens fossils ...

This region served as a vital link between Africa, where Homo sapiens first appeared, and Eurasia, where Neanderthals and other human types lived. The geographic setting allowed for ongoing ...