Study Finds Europe’s Neanderthals Descended from a Single Population
 Europe’s late Neanderthals largely came from a single population. Credit: GreekReporter Archive Europe’s Neanderthals may have traced most…
Neanderthals May Have Used the World’s First Antibiotic 50,000 Years Ago
Creating birch tar using Neanderthal methods. Image credits: University of Cologne. If you were a Neanderthal hunter 50,000…
Did Humans Nearly Go Extinct 900,000 Years Ago? A Biologist Explains
At some point in the deep past, humans may have come frighteningly close to disappearing altogether. Here’s what…
500,000-year-old elephant bone tool reveals advanced planning and skill in early human ancestors
The earliest hominins in Europe shared their environment with large mammals and elephants were some of the largest…
Anthropologists Still Can’t Agree On The Answer
The chin is one of our most familiar features, yet scientists still debate why we evolved it. Here’s…
Stone Age humans hunted with poisoned arrows
 Researchers have uncovered chemical evidence that humans in what is now South Africa were using poisoned arrows…
How Fearsome Wolves Became Loyal Dogs — and Changed Human History Forever
The dog diverged from a now-extinct population of wolves 27,000–40,000 years ago, before or during the Last Glacial…
Life may be reshaping our bodies and brains faster than evolution can handle
For most of the past six million years, the human story played out in shifting woodlands, open plains…
Neanderthals and early humans reshaped Europe’s landscapes long before the rise of agriculture, study finds
A recent study published in PLOS One reveals that Neanderthals and early modern humans began to reshape Europe’s…
Neanderthal-human hybrids may have been scourged by a genetic mismatch
A model of a Neanderthal woman Joe McNally/Getty Modern humans may indeed have wiped out Neanderthals – but…
Fossil hand bones hint that ancient human relative Paranthropus made tools 1.5 million years ago
A 1.5-million-year-old set of hand bones, unearthed from a lake bed in Kenya, are the first to suggest…
Million-year-old skull reconstruction hints at a new chapter in human evolution
Scientists have reconstructed a million-year-old skull found in central China, and say they’ve identified which group of early…