When modern humans first migrated out of Africa about 60,000 years ago, they crossed paths with Neanderthals. Over thousands ...

"Humans picked up some Neanderthal DNA through interbreeding, while the Neanderthal population, always fairly small, was swept away by the waves of new arrivals." Nor is this the first case of a ...

A series of recent investigations suggests that the first human communities passed on their particular culinary traditions ...

A new documentary brings early human history to life with a "scientifically accurate" collection of hyper-real 3D models.

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