A team of scientists found a human footprint that was more than 15,000 years old and challenged the timeline of human ...

Neanderthals and Homo sapiens shared technology and customs in the Levant, shaping early human culture through cooperation.

The first-ever published research out of Tinshemet Cave indicates the two human species regularly interacted and shared technologies and customs.

Even though humans are the only remaining hominin species on the planet, our family tree is actually more complicated than you may realize.

Neanderthal skeletons have both obvious and subtle differences from those of H. sapiens, leading scientists in 1864 to assign them the species name Homo neanderthalensis.

Modern humans and Neanderthals are classified as separate species. According to biologists, they shouldn’t have been able to ...

Our human evolution expert Professor Chris Stringer, who has been studying Neanderthals and Homo sapiens for about 50 years, tackles the big question of whether we belong to the same species. Everyone ...

Human evolution expert Prof Chris Stringer has studied Neanderthals his entire career. Here, he tells us what scientists have uncovered about the lifestyle of these early humans, their distinctive ...

A recent study on the geological and stratigraphic context of the L’Enclos site, located in Mainvilliers (in northern France, near Chartres), has shed new light on human occupation in the region ...

Homo sapiens began in Africa but Neanderthals were Eurasian. (Photo: Pixabay) In 2010 researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (EVA), in Leipzig, published the genome ...

While it is generally accepted that the forerunner to Homo sapiens - Homo erectus - left Africa about 1.5 million years ago to populate other parts of the world, there are two main theories about ...