This video traces the human evolutionary tree from great apes to modern Homo sapiens, explaining the difference between ...

Scientists have extracted and analyzed the first-ever ancient proteins from the fossils of Homo naledi, revealing a potential ...

Neanderthals are Homo sapiens's closest-known relative, and today we know we rubbed shoulders with them for thousands of years, up until the very end of their long reign some 40,000 years ago. Most ...

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Ancient protein tests on their teeth have revealed that the species seem to have operated female-only cemeteries. What's more ...

What were relationships like between homo sapiens and Neanderthals? We know that homo sapiens and Neanderthals interbred, but their exchange of ideas and knowledge may have helped fuel a proliferation ...

The two species began burying their dead at roughly the same time and place. Now some archaeologists think competition may have played a role in burials. Decades ago, Neanderthal burials at Shanidar ...

About 40,000 years ago, Neanderthals, who had lived for hundreds of thousands of years in the western part of the Eurasian continent, gave way to Homo sapiens, who had arrived from Africa. This ...

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 ...

A child’s tooth unearthed from a French cave has revealed the earliest evidence of humans – Homo sapiens – living in western Europe. The discovery of the molar from Grotte Mandrin, near Malataverne in ...