More than just mere cavemen, our Stone Age kin exhibited intelligence in surprising ways, making them more human than ...

Researchers say they may have finally discovered the key genetic change that enabled all of modern human speech.

Neanderthals emerged around 250.000 years ago from European populations—referred to as "pre-Neanderthals"—which inhabited the Eurasian continent between 500.000 and 250.000 years ago. It was ...

Speech allowed us to share information, coordinate activities and pass down knowledge, giving us an edge over extinct cousins like Neanderthals and Denisovans. Advertisement Article continues below ...

Speech allowed us to share information, coordinate activities and pass down knowledge, giving us an edge over extinct cousins like Neanderthals and Denisovans. The new study, published in the ...