Bradley Adams had an expertise in human remains when he got a call from detectives looking for a missing woman in 2010.

For thousands of years, our understanding of Neanderthals painted them as brute-force hunters, powerful, relentless, and single-mindedly carnivorous. They chased mammoths across frozen plains, brought ...

Then came the homo sapiens and within 10,000 years there was not a single trace of Neanderthals except for a lot of discarded Tim Horton’s cups whose rims were all found to be rolled up. (There goes ...

Early humans in Henan made advanced tools during a harsh ice age 146,000 years ago The Lingjing site shows Homo juluensis ...

Our ancestors lived alongside Neanderthals for nearly 200,000 years, often interbreeding with them. But could they understand ...

New protein analysis suggests Homo erectus passed genes to Denisovans, creating an indirect evolutionary link to Homo sapiens.

Researchers said it shows Neanderthals were capable of such complex dental procedures tens of thousands of years before our ...

Some 59,000 years ago, a Neanderthal developed a toothache. What happened next was, in many ways, astonishing. This individual figured out the source of their pain, deep inside a molar. They probably ...

An analysis of ancient human artefacts finds that the container, a simple but critical tool, may have originated 500,000 years ago. Columnist Michael Marshall explores how slings, ostrich eggs and woo ...

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We appear to have more in common with our Neanderthal cousins than outward appearances would suggest. New research published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests ...