This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

It took more than a century for researchers to prove that Neanderthals were actually quite intelligent and that they ...

Starting a fire led to advancements such as cooking, which unlocked nutrients that improved the size and cognition of the ...

This innovative approach combines climate data, archaeological evidence, and population dynamics to simulate how Neanderthals moved across the landscape. The model reveals that by the time ...

Analysis of bones from Goyet cave in Belgium found cut marks indicating cannibalism, with victims including children and ...

Using a specially developed simulation model, researchers at the University of Cologne have traced and analyzed the dynamics ...

Early human ancestors called the LRJ Group lived in Europe for 80 generations, intermingling with Neanderthals, before ...

The oldest sediment DNA discovered so far comes from Greenland and is 2 million years old.

These genomes are the oldest yet found of modern humans in Europe, though they were not the first hominids to walk these lands—a 1.4-million-year-old fossil ancestor discovered in Spain in March 2025 ...

Ella Al-Shamahi explores the complexities of our past by meeting the fascinating human species we once shared the planet with ...

A mystery that started with the discovery of a pinkie finger bone in Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia may finally have been cracked.

The ability to make fire on demand has long been seen as a turning point in our evolutionary story. It unlocked benefits like ...