New research has uncovered an extraordinary discovery that challenges our understanding of early human evolution. A young child, buried around 140,000 years ago at Skhul Cave in Israel, was found to ...

Yet not everyone is convinced that the Skhul child belongs to the Homo sapiens lineage, particularly given the similarities some of the bones show to those of Neanderthal children from France and ...

Researchers didn’t see the Neanderthal art until the 1970s. Now, it’s taken another several decades to accurately determine when those drawings were probably made.

Questions emerged over whether it was a random stain or if someone had placed the pigment there on purpose. Professor María de Andrés-Herrero from the Complutense University explained that the team ...

Scientists sequenced the genomes of 2,762 individuals across India, revealing the country’s unique ancestral makeup and a ...

There were also a few curiosities that got the team wondering what was being overlooked further back in time. For example, a 120,000-year-old Neanderthal was found in the Siberian Denisova cave ...

Mukhopadhyay’s research suggests that a shift in the Earth’s magnetic poles around 41,000 years ago, known as the Laschamp event, may have contributed to the extinction of Neanderthals.

And this isn’t the first time Neanderthal genetic variants have been identified as a considerable risk factor for a disease: In 2020, Zeberg co-authored a groundbreaking study in the journal ...

A prehistoric tragedy in slow motion.Only in the last 110,000 years or so did the so-called “ classic Neanderthal ” emerge, exhibiting a suite of morphological features that are unmistakably ...

Introduction Caucasians usually portray themselves as ldquo;clever rdquo; and ldquo;superior human beings rdquo; on earth .

In Fernbridge, a tiny town on California’s northern coast, a new wool mill is spinning to life. It’s part of a goal to revive an industry that died out decades ago.

Across this range of characteristics, men tend to have more positive ratings of Trump’s leadership qualities than women. For example, in 19 countries, men are more likely to say Trump is ...