Homo erectus may have deliberately selected rocks embedded with fossils and crystals to craft their hand axes.

The first-ever published research on Tinshemet Cave reveals that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens in the mid-Middle Paleolithic ...

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The idea that modern humans inherited DNA from Neanderthal ancestors is one of the 21st century’s most celebrated discoveries ...

Between 2 million and 3 million years ago, humans appeared in Africa — but identifying them in the fossil record is turning ...

NPR's Elissa Nadworny speaks with Elena Zavala of the University of California, Berkeley, about new research showing how homo sapiens and Neanderthals interacted and may have even interbred. About ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE PHOTO: An AI-reconstructed image, created at Tel Aviv University, shows a mixed Neanderthal–Homo Sapiens family. Image ...

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Mark Thiessan/National Geographic Bigger brains may not equate to higher intelligence after all, according to a remarkable discovery about an early hominin. Homo naledi, a hominin discovered in the ...

A partial skull found in a cave in Southern Greece is the earliest evidence of the presence of Homo sapiens outside of Africa ...