A recent study published in Nature Human Behaviour shows that a cave in central Israel suggest that Neanderthals and early ...

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

Scientists have uncovered evidence that modern humans emerged from two long-separated ancestral groups, not just one. This ...

New genetic research suggests that humans first developed language around 135,000 years ago when populations began ...

One of the most profound questions about human history is when language, as we know it, first emerged. A new analysis of ...

"Our history is far richer and more complex than we imagined," said human evolutionary geneticist Aylwyn Scally.

Humans' unique language capacity was present at least 135,000 years ago, according to a survey of genomic evidence. As such, language might have entered social use 100,000 years ago.