Neanderthals and Homo sapiens shared technology and customs in the Levant, shaping early human culture through cooperation.

Homo naledi, an extinct relative of modern humans whose brain was one-third the size of ours, buried their dead and engraved ...

A recent study published in Nature Human Behaviour shows that a cave in central Israel suggest that Neanderthals and early ...

New genetic research suggests that humans first developed language around 135,000 years ago when populations began ...

Early human evolution may have been more complex than scientists previously thought, with modern humans evolving from two ...

"Our history is far richer and more complex than we imagined," said human evolutionary geneticist Aylwyn Scally.

Humans' unique language capacity was present at least 135,000 years ago, according to a survey of genomic evidence. As such, language might have entered social use 100,000 years ago.

A new study reveals that a mysterious human ancestors contributed 20% of modern human genes, potentially enhancing brain ...

Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long before modern humans spread across the globe.