The first-ever published research on Tinshemet Cave reveals that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens in the mid-Middle Paleolithic ...

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The human body is often described as a marvel of "perfect design": elegant, efficient and finely tuned for its purpose. Yet, ...

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Discover how a unique project visualized what the human body would need to look like to withstand the forces of a car crash.

For tens of thousands of years, two species — Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans — shared vast landscapes.

One day over 120,000 years ago, a resourceful group of Neanderthals took down a 7,700-pound, ancient elephant in present-day Germany. Now, paleoanthropologists studying the area can confirm that the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The straight-tusk elephant would have provided Neanderthal hunters with thousands of pounds of meat. In 1948, a group of amateur ...

The Primate Myth: Why the Latest Science Leads Us to a New Theory of Human Nature, by Jonathan Leaf (Bombardier, 320 pp., $21) Ever since Darwin, biologists have believed that much could be learned ...

In public discourse, the increasing lifespan in Western countries is often linked to longer life in good health. However, studying human aging in modern societies is complex because outcomes are ...

When he was a doctoral student at the University of Copenhagen, Eske Willerslev was a nobody. At least, that’s how it seemed to the budding evolutionary geneticist, who was unable to lay his hands on ...