Ancestors or Relics? Neanderthals have long fascinated scientists and the general public alike. Are they our distant ...

New study shows Middle Paleolithic people intentionally decorated stone tools, offering evidence that abstract thinking began ...

Land reform in South Africa has followed a familiar script—conquest, displacement, and struggle. The names change, but the fights remain the same.

But if that doesn’t sound like you, you can blame it on our Neanderthal ancestors. Scientists believe that we’re hardwired to be negative thinkers, because our survival once depended on it. Experts ...

Love is in the (chilly) air, keeping florists, romantics, and would-be poets busy. Admittedly, the true origins of ...

For years, scientists have known that Neanderthals and modern humans interbred, leaving behind genetic traces that still ...

Well, the first thing to point out is that no one has the brain of a Neanderthal, just some hints of this ancestry. The current evidence suggests some people with European ancestry have more ...

When considering what kind of technology to use, we need to ask the same question as our Paleolithic ancestors probably did – ...

"Neanderthals have an Rh blood group that is ... gene variants found in many people today come from early Homo sapiens ancestors, who appear to have evolved them soon after leaving Africa ...