A recent discovery of a fossilized child skeleton, dating back 140,000 years, is challenging established beliefs about early ...

A new study reveals a subtle genetic mutation in modern humans' brain chemistry, specifically affecting the ADSL enzyme. This mutation, unique to Homo sapiens, may have influenced resource-seeking ...

Researchers have dated the mysterious skull from Petralona Cave in Greece to 300,000 years ago and concluded that the fossil ...

A new study suggests an enzyme unique to Homo sapiens may have made us more competitive water seekers than our closest ...

A 5-year-old child who lived 140,000 years ago is the earliest evidence of interbreeding between the two species.

Tel Aviv, Israel — Modern humans and Neanderthals were interacting 100,000 years earlier than previously thought, according ...

On the slopes of Mount Carmel in northern Israel, a small skull has changed the story of human history. Buried in Skhul Cave roughly 140,000 years ago, the remains of a five-year-old child show that ...

A groundbreaking discovery of a 140,000-year-old child’s skeleton from Skhul Cave reveals the earliest known evidence of ...

Neanderthals were fewer in number than Homo sapiens, and this led to their eventual assimilation into the larger, more populous human groups. Modern genetic studies reveal that Neanderthal DNA ...