Science

Neanderthals And Modern Humans, Like, Got Busy

Despite representing different stages of human evolution, it looks like European Homo sapiens might have had a penchant for a little Neanderthal booty. Or vice versa.


August 26, 2011
Science

You Can Thank Human-Neanderthal Relations For Your Strong Immune System

It’s already been well established that early humans had Bunga-Bunga parties with their closest semi-human relatives. But scientists are just now discovering what came from those relations — a pathogen-killing immune response that persists to this day.


August 24, 2010
Science

Artificial Ape Man: How Technology Created Humans

Archaeologist and anthropologist Timothy Taylor explains how a long-vanished artefact explains human evolution and led to “survival of the weakest”