A growing body of genetic evidence suggests that Neanderthals and Denisovans carried many of the same regulatory gene networks linked to language and vocal anatomy in modern humans, challenging the ...

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Discover the latest news, features and articles about who Neanderthals were, whether they mated with modern humans and when ...

AI recreates Neanderthals with ancient stereotypes and revives scientific errors of the past in its current digital images.

A new radiocarbon reassessment has established that the so-called Lapedo child from central Portugal was buried approximately ...

A lost cache of 250-million-year-old fossils from Australia has rewritten part of the story of life after Earth’s worst mass extinction. Instead of a single marine amphibian species, researchers ...

Neanderthals disappeared from the fossil record approximately 40,000 years ago. Their extinction was a gradual process over thousands of years, and theories as to why include competition with modern ...

Two skulls from Yunxian, in northern China, aren’t ancestors of Denisovans after all; they’re actually the oldest known Homo ...