Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The skull of a small child who lived and died many millennia ago represents the oldest direct evidence to date of the prolonged ...

Simulation Reveals First Encounters of Neanderthals and Modern Humans in Europe ...

Two of the traits that set modern humans apart from non-human primates are taller stature and a higher basal metabolic rate. Researchers have identified a genetic variant that contributed to the ...

Using a specially developed simulation model, researchers at the University of Cologne have traced and analysed the dynamics of possible encounters between Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans ...

Deep inside a cave system in Europe, a 60,000‑year‑old assemblage of human remains and artifacts has forced researchers to rethink how our species emerged and spread. Instead of a neat story in which ...

A new study published in the journal Archaeology in Oceania has revealed shocking information about modern humans in Australia, dramatically rewriting the continent’s history. According to the ...

Introduction. Rethinking the human revolution: Eurasian and African perspectives / Paul Mellars -- pt. 1. Biological and demographic perspectives on modern human origins. The origin and dispersal of ...