They drew with crayons, possibly fed on maggots and maybe even kissed us: Forty millenniums later, our ancient human cousins ...

In the recent study on pain, researchers investigated three variations in the SCN9A gene, and reported greater pain ...

The discovery rewrites the history of interbreeding between Homo sapiens and Neanderthals. In a new study published in the journal l’Anthropologie, scientists have identified the earliest-known ...

TEL AVIV, Israel — Modern humans and Neanderthals were interacting 100,000 years earlier than previously thought, according to researchers who used CT scans and 3D mapping to study the bones of a ...

(CNN) — In a rocky outcrop on Mount Carmel, in what is now Israel, a group of ancient humans buried their dead about 140,000 years ago. Scientists uncovered the site, called Skhul Cave, in 1928, and ...

Turns out we have a lot more in common with Neanderthals than we thought. In a stunning breakthrough, researchers at Germany's Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology have mapped the ...

A genetic variant inherited from Neanderthals has been linked to reduced severity of Covid-19. Researchers traced the ...

In a new study published in the journal l'Anthropologie, scientists have identified the earliest-known example of human interbreeding with Neanderthals. It offers stunning new insight into the ancient ...