How far back in evolutionary history does kissing go? Through phylogenetic analysis, an international team of scientists found that kissing was likely present in the ancestor of all apes – which lived ...

A recent study compared features of Neanderthals' inner ears across space and time to extrapolate what happened to them tens of thousands of years ago. Reading time 3 minutes DNA studies suggest that ...

A latest study utilizing advanced spatial modeling has revealed that neither climate change nor direct competition with early modern humans can fully explain the disappearance of Neanderthals from ...

The Zlatý kůň skull, found in a cave site in present-day Czechia. Its DNA showed similarities to bones found in a German cave, according to new research. Hidden in many people’s genetic codes is a ...

Pre-Neanderthals once roamed Eurasia around 500,000 years to 250,000 years ago. During the end of that period, pre-Neanderthals slowly began the evolutionary process into early Neanderthals, which ...

A new study suggests that Neanderthals experienced a dramatic loss of genetic variation during the course of their evolution, foreshadowing their eventual extinction. Examination of semicircular ...

The idea that modern humans inherited DNA from Neanderthal ancestors is one of the 21st century’s most celebrated discoveries in evolution. It may not be that ...