“When humans migrated around the world, our gut microbiomes came with us. We're now losing many of those ancient microbial ...

In a recent dig at a significant Neanderthal site in Barcelona, Abric Romaní, archaeologists have unearthed a massive cache ...

A Neanderthal growth hormone receptor may be linked to slightly greater muscle mass in some people today. Here is what it ...

Since wood degrades, evidence of these tools is rare, and that's why this site in Barcelona, where traces of wooden tools are ...

Composite skull and CT-based soft-tissue mapping reveal a familiar face while underscoring what fossils can’t show.

On February 28, 1927, in a botanical garden in Conakry, a Soviet biologist artificially inseminated two female chimpanzees with human sperm. He inseminated a third in June.

More than 400,000-year-old Homo erectus teeth from China may reveal a surprising link between this ancient human species, Denisovans, and some modern people. Scientists found protein mutations ...

The co-evolution of humanity and AI is a process in which AI does not simply replace human work, but rather humans and AI ...

More than 40,000 years ago, bands of Neanderthals turned a spacious rock shelter in the mountains of Spain into a cozy home, ...

When Neanderthals dominated Europe, it was likely that wood was at least as important to them as stone for working into tools ...

The microbiome isn’t what it used to be in many parts of the world. The shift of species may be affecting the well-being of ...

As waves of humans left Africa tens of thousands of years ago, eventually populating the entire planet, they were joined on ...