There’s a growing appreciation among anthropologists that Neanderthals were more similar to modern humans than we previously ...

Africa has long been known as the cradle of humanity. Fossils, tools and genetics all point there. Yet the deeper story of how the first modern humans lived, moved and mixed has stayed blurry. Too ...

Yet a detailed analysis of the remains of a Neanderthal baby shows that from a very young age, they were already different, ...

The gap between genetics and archaeology leaves us with an unclear picture of where the Neanderthals originated. Columnist ...

A detailed analysis of the best-preserved Neanderthal infant skeleton ever found suggests that our ancient relatives grew ...