Experts at the University of Ferrara in Italy claim that darker complexions were the norm throughout Europe for the vast ...

An international study led by researchers from Friedrich Schiller University Jena uncovered 80,000-year-old stone blades made ...

A new study links a particular gene to the ancient origins of spoken language in humans. When put in mice, it changed the way ...

New research suggests a genetic variant in the NOVA1 protein may have played a key role in the emergence of human speech.

Homo sapiens also made use of the caves around 18,000 to 11,000 B.C., UNESCO reports. Remains of their burials have been found within the caves. Cave of Swimmers ...

Research using new methods for examining and analyzing human fossils reveals previously unknown facets of prehistoric man. The results demonstrate the central role that food plays in the ...

The study reveals that Neanderthals possessed a very rare type of Rh factor, distinct from that of Denisovans and early Homo sapiens, which could have been fatal to their newborns. Stéphane ...

Tens of thousands of years ago, modern humans (Homo sapiens) migrating out of Africa ... rise to current populations outside Africa. This early-branching population has no descendants today.

Image:Le Moustier’s 1920s art reconstruction of Neanderthals. Credit: Public domain Scientists have uncovered how blood groups helped early humans (Homo sapiens) in their survival and expansion across ...

All of Earth’s creatures have the potential to slowly fossilize, making them discoverable after millions of years to be studied and entered into the annals of science. That includes those that ...

Neandertals went extinct about 30,000 years ago. They lived successfully in Europe, Asia, and Africa for hundreds of thousands of years. Homo sapiens left Africa about 70,000 years ago and entered ...