Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. NICK GRIMM: A team of international scientists has broken new ground on the theory of human evolution.

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

They drew with crayons, possibly fed on maggots and maybe even kissed us: Forty millenniums later, our ancient human cousins ...

Up until recently, the consensus was that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens were separate species. But most humans carry about 2% of Neanderthal DNA, challenging the view that we are different. Other ...

Fossils offer a detailed record of early human skulls but not the brains inside them. So researchers have been using genetic material taken from those fossils to search for clues about how the human ...

A side-by-side comparison of a Neanderthal and human skull Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans initially interbred 250,000 years ago, a date that is far earlier than previously thought, a new ...

Pit of bones An analysis of skulls found in a Spanish cave reveals the oldest-known humans to have Neanderthal-like features lived about 430,000 years ago. The skulls however also show characteristics ...

Ears are incredible things. They help us process sound and play a significant role in our balance. They may have also just ...

Life appearance reconstruction of a Neanderthal male at the Natural History Museum of London.Credit: Photo: Allan Henderson under CC BY 2.0 Ears are incredible things. They help us process sound and ...

The extinction of the Neanderthals is one of the most intriguing mysteries in paleoanthropology, with researchers speculating everything from shifts in the climate to war with modern humans may have ...