Jaw-dropping evidence suggests that Homo sapiens and Neanderthals were on very friendly terms. Prehistoric teeth discovered in a cave on the British isle of Jersey confirms that the two prehistoric ...

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 ...

For his latest documentary, Austria’s Nikolaus Geyrhalter quite justifiably could have borrowed the title of Chinua Achebe’s best-known novel: Things Fall Apart. But the fact that a ninety-minute film ...

Discover how Homo sapiens outlasted Neanderthals – and how they helped make us who we are today. For 400,000 years, Neanderthals thrived across frigid, Ice Age Europe. What happened when Homo sapiens ...

May 5 (Reuters) - It is a scene that exudes sadness: a child perhaps 2-1/2 or 3 years old buried in a shallow grave under the sheltered overhang of a cave, head resting on a pillow and the upper part ...

In the grand story of evolution, the crowning human distinction is our big brain. But our large heads have been slow to ...

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