Neanderthals had key speech gene, researchers say
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But did they have much to say? Neanderthals may have a reputation in popular culture as a lumbering, grunting people, but researchers have discovered that they did have a gene thought to play a key role in speech.â¦
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Genetic evidence suggests humans have moved into the evolutionary fast lane and are becoming increasing different.
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Scientists have found fossilised remains of what could be the last common ancestor to all the great apes living today. It will give scientists vital clues in charting the course of primate and, ultimately, human evolution.
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The archaic human species that dominated Europe until the arrival of modern humans some 45,000 years ago possessed a critical gene known to underlie speech, according to DNA evidence.
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The ability of early human ancestors to run long distances may have influenced the transition to today's body form, researchers report.
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Scientists have pinpointed mutations in an ancient protein that transformed its shape and function more than 400 million years ago.
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Long-distance running may have been a driving force behind evolution of the modern human body, scientists say.
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A new scientific study claims that genes controlling the size and complexity of the brain have evolved more rapidly in humans than they have in any other species - including apes.
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Their bodies were well equipped to cope with the Ice Age, so why did the Neanderthals die out when it ended? Horizon looks for answers.
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Scientists say the Rock of Gibraltar may have been the last stronghold for Europe's Neanderthals.
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Humans were born to run and evolved from ape-like creatures into the way they look today probably because of the need to cover long distances and compete for food, scientists said on Wednesday.
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Some Neanderthals probably had red hair much like modern-day humans, a DNA study shows.
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THE MYSTERY: Since the discovery of the famed "hobbit fossil," researchers have wrangled over whether the find was a human ancestor or a modern human suffering from a genetic disorder.
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Neandertals may have died out like a bad movie&#151;by word of mouth. Modern humans' complex use of language sounded the defeat of their big-browed cousins, a new study says.
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The earliest-known human ancestors  to migrate out of Africa possessed a surprising mix of  human-like and primitive features, according to scientists who  studied remains dug up at a fossil-rich site in the former  Soviet republic of Georgia.
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A 27-million-year-old  fossil could be the &ldquo;missing link&rdquo; between modern elephants and their ancestors,  scientists have concluded.
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Like bringing to life a naked mannequin, scientists are using genetic and physical evidence found in fossils to clothe the skeletal remains of our closest hominid relatives, the Neanderthals.