In this interview, Laura Spinney discusses how Proto-Indo-European spread through migration, social change, and population ...

BARCELONA, SPAIN—IFL Science reports that analysis of dental calculus samples taken from 18 Neanderthals, 745 modern humans, and 96 great apes suggests that Neanderthals consumed insects about as ...

Researchers at the University of Vermont have uncovered a powerful new insight about how language works—one that overturns a cornerstone assumption in psychology, linguistics, and artificial ...

As they roamed around Europe and Asia between 400,000 and 40,000 years ago, Neanderthals had some hallmarks of humanity, including culture and organized social structures. But did they have language?

"We think that early humans maxed out this pathway to developing the kind of brain that could be a vessel for language and they hit that ceiling pretty early on and then remained stable, while other ...

In 2001 scientists studying human language made a breakthrough: by looking at the DNA of a family with a rare speech disability, they found that a mutation in a single gene called FOXP2 were ...

Teeth are like tiny biological time capsules. They tell stories about ancient diets and environments long after their owners have died and landscapes have changed. After bones break down, tooth enamel ...

Long before Artemis II captured our attention by taking humans farther from Earth than ever before, humans have been fascinated by the possibility of exploring other worlds, finding life on other ...

The paleo diet popularized the image of a meat-based caveman-style diet, but that image is far from the archaeological truth. According to scientific research about what hominins and early humans ate, ...

The findings may reveal new insights into early human mating preferences Mike Kemp/In Pictures via Getty A new study suggests Neanderthal males mated with human females more often than the reverse ...

Example of tracing of a fragment (modified from Texier et al), normalization of the engraved lines, and data extraction. Credit: PLOS One (2026). More than 60,000 years ago, early humans in southern ...