Discover how ancient humans scaled up their food production to survive in harsh environments.

"Humans picked up some Neanderthal DNA through interbreeding, while the Neanderthal population, always fairly small, was ...

Recent research suggests that some of these genetic variants inherited from Neanderthals could be linked to autism spectrum ...

Archaeological findings reveal Neanderthals operated a 'fat factory' 125,000 years ago in what is now Germany, smashing bones ...

The skull of a 5-year-old girl who lived 140,000 years ago has similarities with modern Homo sapiens and Neanderthals, ...

The five-part series examines how we, as Homo sapiens, went from being just one of many types of human to becoming the ...

The researchers believe that Neanderthals, an extinct species of human known to have lived in that area as far back as ...

The Neanderthals are our closest extinct relatives, and they continue to fascinate as we peer back through tens of thousands ...

For the past 40,000 years, Homo sapiens have been the only human species on Earth. Our ancestors, including the Neanderthals ...

The evidence constitutes the earliest clear case of intensive grease-rendering yet documented for the Paleolithic.

An ancient human site in Germany features animal bones that were smashed into small pieces and heated to extract fat 125,000 ...

Nord, Germany, systematically transported and processed the bones of at least 172 large mammals to extract nutrient-rich ...