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Study Finds Major Body-Size Jump in Later Homo About 2 Million Years Ago

Authors say the increase signals a shift to more efficient bipedalism that helped early Homo change its diet.

New Evidence Suggests Hominins Used Fire in Wonderwerk Cave 1.07–1.8 Million Years Ago

Neandertal Tooth Shows Stone-Tool Drilling as Oldest Evidence of Complex Dental Care

New Studies Challenge Idea That Smarter Humans Drove Neanderthals to Extinction

Virtual Reconstruction Reveals Little Foot’s Face, Hinting East African Affinities

Study Finds Sex-Biased Neanderthal–Human Mating Shaped Modern X Chromosomes

Science Study Finds Neandertal–Human Pairings Skewed Toward Neandertal Men and Modern Women

Study Finds Prehistoric Pairings Favored Neanderthal Men and Human Women

Science Study Finds Neanderthal–Human Mating Skewed Toward Neanderthal Men and Human Women

NYU-Led Reanalysis Points to Bipedalism in 7-Million-Year-Old Sahelanthropus

Study Finds 'Little Foot' May Be an Undocumented Australopithecus Lineage

Altamura Neanderthal’s Nose Reconstruction Overturns Claimed Cold-Adaptation Traits

New Model Recasts Neanderthal 'Extinction' as Genetic Absorption Into Modern Humans

Rebuilt Million-Year-Old Skull Recasts Early Human Family Tree

140,000-Year-Old Skhul Child Shows Mixed Traits, Pointing to Early Human–Neanderthal Interbreeding

Neanderthals’ 125,000-Year-Old “Fat Factory” Confirmed as First Large-Scale Bone-Grease Operation

Spanish Pebble Yields 43,000-Year-Old Neanderthal Face Abstraction, Fingerprint

Precise Dating of Lapedo Child Sheds Light on Neanderthal-Human Interactions