Homo heidelbergensis is widely seen as the most likely last common ancestor of Neanderthals and modern humans. Known from ...

In this new series, Human, paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi reveals our incredible story across 300,000 years of human ...

For a long time, Neanderthals have intrigued both scientists and historians. They were not mere primitive cavemen walking ...

NEW YORK — Humans and Neanderthals cozied up from time to time when they lived in the same areas tens of thousands of years ago. But we don’t know much about who got with whom, or why. A new genetic ...

This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. Among the many other human species that once inhabited ...