Learn more about what how humans ended up having Neanderthal DNA in their genome and what it means if you have it.

Researchers excavating an ancient Neanderthal site in southern England found evidence not just of a hearth, but of its ...

Evidence from a site in southeast England suggests early humans were purposefully and repeatedly igniting blazes roughly ...

These genomes are the oldest yet found of modern humans in Europe, though they were not the first hominids to walk these ...

More than a decade after the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced, scientists are still working to understand how ...

For years, researchers analyzing traumatic injuries found on Neanderthal fossils believed they had lived dangerous, violent lives. But a new study reveals that early modern humans and Neanderthals ...

Modern human faces are surprisingly delicate compared with the jutting jaws and broad noses of our closest extinct cousins.

Why is swapping saliva something all human societies have normalised? Turns out kissing isn't just a human thing — all sorts of species appear to kiss, and new research suggests Neanderthals did it ...

Humans likely harvested their first flames from wildfire. When they learned to make it themselves, it changed everything.

A study shows Neanderthals made first fire in Britain 400,000 years ago, pushing back the timeline of controlled fire use by ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. When scientists sequenced the Neanderthal genome in 2010, they learned that Neanderthals ...

Learn more about how researchers can take evidence from the past to better shape our idea of what Neanderthals looked like.