In the research, published Wednesday (Jan. 7) in the journal Nature, a team of Moroccan and French researchers detailed their ...

Palaeolithic humans living on both sides of the Strait of Gibraltar were a creative bunch to say the least, and were ...

S ome groups of European Neanderthals may have lost the ability to make fire during the colder periods of their existence. As ...

The jawbones and vertebrae of a hominin that lived 773,000 years ago have been found in North Africa and could represent a ...

For decades, anthropologists lumped these ancient populations into a single species, Homo heidelbergensis, long believed to ...

Genetic evidence suggests the last shared ancestor of present-day humans, as well as ancient Neanderthals and Denisovans, ...

Investigations on various sites at Strait of Gibraltar revealed not only the presence of first-ever intercontinental rock art ...

Researchers have uncovered compelling evidence that Neanderthals repeatedly deposited horned animal skulls in a Spanish cave over thousands of years, suggesting a culturally transmitted ritual ...

A team of anthropologists recently examined a collection of fossil hominin jawbones, teeth, and vertebrae that belong to ...

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The human immune system like fat and blood sugar levels may have been due to genetic mutations from Denisovans, our little known extinct human relatives ...

Genetic studies show Neanderthals had varied skin and hair pigmentation adapted to their environments. Some populations ...