Using a specially developed simulation model, researchers at the University of Cologne have traced and analysed the dynamics of possible encounters ...

Researchers at the University of Cologne use simulations to investigate the likelihood of interactions between Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans on the Iberian Peninsula / publication in ...

Scientists discovered a new human species, Homo juluensis, in the Xujiayao site in China that lived 200,000 years ago.

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

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

A study scanned genomes from over 450,000 people to find individuals who carry rare archaic versions of DNA changes once ...

Until now, the earliest clear evidence of humans creating fire dates to roughly 50,000 years ago. The new findings push that ...

Study on skull of Altamura Man could be blow to adaptation theories about Neanderthals and their extinction ...

A collection of artefacts showing the earliest evidence of early humans intentionally making fire nearly 350,000 years ...

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

The findings, described in the journal Nature, push back the earliest known date for controlled fire-making by roughly ...