Here are 10 major Neanderthal findings from 2025 — and what they teach us about our own evolution. Homo erectus H. sapiens ...

For the past 40,000 years, Homo sapiens have been the only human species on Earth. Our ancestors, including the Neanderthals and Denisovans, disappeared long before us, leaving behind only fossils and ...

Researchers determined that a skull of a female child from Skhūl Cave in Israel shows both Homo sapiens and Neanderthal features, leading researchers to think she is possibly a hybrid. If she is a ...

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Modern humans and Neanderthals were interacting 100,000 years earlier than previously thought, according to researchers who used CT scans and 3D mapping to study the bones of a ...

Every human face is unique, allowing us to distinguish between individuals. We know little about how facial features are encoded in our DNA, but we may be able to learn more about how our faces ...

That could place the ancestors of Homo sapiens—modern humans—outside Africa, an idea which flips everything palaeontologists ...

The original evolution of hominins (modern humans and their evolutionary ancestors since the split with other great apes) took place in Africa about 7 million years ago, based on the fossil record.