An 80,000-year-old bone spear tip, unearthed in Russia, challenges previous assumptions about Neanderthal capabilities. This ...

The last common ancestor of both the Homo sapiens and Homo neanderthalensis is now seen as Homo heidelbergensis, but what do we know about this enigmatic species of ancient humans? The discovery ...

WE are Homo sapiens, the species to which all modern human beings belong. It actually means "wise man” in Latin because Homo sapiens had the smarts to survive the evolutionary game that ...

Scientists have uncovered Neanderthal tools in a place we thought Neanderthals never went to. Learn what might explain this ...

Researchers have found that a spear tip carved from bone, unearthed from Russia in 2003, is as old as 80,000 years.

For a long time, the original dating that placed them at 400,000 years old was accepted, later revised down to 300,000 in more recent analyses, attributing their creation to Homo heidelbergensis. At ...

A new genomic study in Science encompassing more than 300 genomes spanning the last 50,000 years has revealed how a single wave of Neanderthal gene flow into early modern humans left an indelible ...

These Homo sapiens – nomadic hunter-gatherers who populated Western Europe between 11,000 and 35,000 years ago – carry with them a leather rucksack containing objects of value: mostly flint ...

Research shows gardening preserves cognitive function, helping you live well for longer. Now, dementia patients are reaping the benefits with "care farms" prescriptions. Marianne Rogstad, a ...