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

Scientists have revealed the most scientifically accurate reconstructions of what ancient humans would have looked like.

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

A recent study published in Science Advances discovered that Neanderthals systematically extracted fat from bones on a large ...

New research suggests that modern conditions may trace back to Neanderthal skull traits we share with our extinct cousins.

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

The predecessors of the Neanderthals likely split from the ancestors of modern humans at least 500,000 years ago, and spread out across Europe and into southwest and central Asia. The new study ...

But Neanderthals weren't the only human relative with which H. sapiens interbred after they trekked out of Africa some 64,000 years ago.

A new study reveals that Stone Age humans in Germany operated a 'fat factory' to extract nutrients from animal bones.

New evidence reveals that Neanderthals were rendering fat from animal bones 125,000 years ago.

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

Take heart in this impression. A century ago, when adolescent psychology first emerged as a field of study, that was exactly ...