Simulation Reveals First Encounters of Neanderthals and Modern Humans in Europe ...

The hand stencil is more than 1,000 years older than the previous earliest evidence of rock art.

This is something of a misnomer, for Eve was neither the first modern human nor the only woman alive 200,000 years ago. But she did live at a time when the modern human population was small—about ...

A collection of bones from Casablanca holds important new clues to the origins of modern humans and Neanderthals.

Fossils unearthed in Morocco are the first from a little-understood period of human evolution and may be remains of a mysterious human ancestor.

Momentous encounters -- Neanderthal ancestors -- Neanderthals and their world -- The quiet people -- The ten thousandth grandmother -- Great mobility -- The realm of the Lion Man -- Fat, flints, and ...