In The Inheritors, Willliam Golding’s second novel, Neanderthals utter only a few short words and think entirely with images.

For decades, the origins of human speech have remained one of science’s most captivating mysteries. A new study published in Biological Theory now suggests that Homo erectus, one of our earliest ...

Washington — When Homo sapiens trekked out of Africa, our species encountered Neanderthal populations already inhabiting the vast expanses of Europe, Asia and the Middle East. As the presence of ...

The climate and early human societies were changing quickly during the fall of our closest evolutionary relative—and are big clues to the causes of their demise. This reconstruction of a Neanderthal ...