Human evolution: Facts, news, features and articles about the past 300,000 years of Homo sapiens

Discover the latest news, features and articles about the origin of the human species and what makes us different from our ...

Neanderthals seemed to have a thing for modern human women

By now, it’s firmly established that modern humans and their Neanderthal relatives met and mated as our ancestors expanded ...
MIT Technology Review

The human work behind humanoid robots is being hidden

AI’s concealed labor has repeatedly led us to overestimate the technology. Humanoid robots are entering a similar phase.

Revelation of human breasts’ secret function solves long-running mystery

Researchers said this provides "an evolutionarily grounded explanation for the development of external breasts in humans." ...
Scientific American

Neanderthal and human interbreeding tended to follow a specific pattern

Interbreeding between Neandertals and ancient anatomically modern humans primarily occurred between male Neandertals and female humans, a new study suggests ...
ABC 17 News

New analysis reveals a strong bias in prehistoric hookups between humans and Neanderthals

The 2010 discovery that early humans and Neanderthals once encountered one another and had babies was a scientific bombshell that electrified the field of human origins. Now, geneticists at the ...