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Could Neanderthals talk?
Live Science via Yahoo News· 3 weeks agoClose-up image of a Neanderthal skull against a black background. Neanderthals were our closest human relatives, and they had many similarities with...
Neanderthals and humans may belong to the same species, say scientists. It could rewrite the history...
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 5 months agoAs we begin to unpick the history of human and Neanderthal evolution, new scrutiny is being placed...
Nobel Prize in medicine goes to 'unusual' candidate who discovered that modern humans and...
INSIDER via Yahoo News· 2 years agoSwedish paleogenetics pioneer Svante Pääbo stands with a replica of a Neanderthal skeleton at the...
Our *Homo sapiens* ancestors shared the world with Neanderthals, Denisovans and other types of...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 2 years agoHundreds of thousands of years ago, our *Homo sapiens* ancestors shared the landscape with multiple...
India's evolutionary past tied to huge migration 50,000 years ago and to now-extinct human relatives
Live Science via Yahoo News· 3 months agoClose-up image of a group of four Indian children (with the face of another more blurred behind...
When did humans first start to speak? How language evolved in Africa
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 1 year agoDescendants of the indigenous San people in the Kalahari Desert. Eric Lafforgue/Gamma-Rapho via...
Why did Homo sapiens emerge in Africa?
Live Science· 1 week agoBird's eye view of people walking on a map of the world. Every person on Earth today can trace their ancestry to Africa, where modern humans (Homo...
The average human brain size is growing — but that doesn't exactly mean we're smarter
Salon via Yahoo News· 2 months agoDoctor looking at CT scan Getty Images/1440525438 Humans owe our impressive intellect to our large...
Navigating the ethics of ancient human DNA research
Knowable Magazine via Yahoo News· 1 year agoPaleogenomic research has expanded rapidly over the past two decades, igniting heated debate about handling remains. Who gives consent for study...
Are You Left-Handed? Here Are 24 Surprising Things About Your Kind
Cheapism via AOL· 2 weeks agoLeft-handed people make up about 10% of the population, and southpaws are often known to be...