A groundbreaking study from the Max Planck Institute reveals that modern humans and Neanderthals had nearly identical brain sizes, but not brain function. Six amino acid mutations in Homo sapiens ...

Neanderthals weren’t brutish cavemen—they were skilled, social, and deeply human. This documentary explores how they lived, what they left behind, and why they disappeared.

In a rocky outcrop on Mount Carmel, in what is now Israel, a group of ancient humans buried their dead about 140,000 years ago. Scientists uncovered the site, called Skhul Cave, in 1928, and about ...

New genetic techniques are shedding light on a mysterious part of our family tree—ancient human relatives called the Denisovans that emerged during the Pleistocene epoch, approximately 370,000 years ...