Neanderthals

The invention of spears and bows and arrows may have helped early humans drive Neanderthals to extinction © Getty Images

The invention of spears and bows and arrows may have helped early humans drive Neanderthals to extinction

Ancient human species recreated from DNA © Maayan Harel

Ancient human species recreated from DNA

Neanderthals weren't the strong, strapping cavepeople we imagine © VixPix/BBC/NHM

Neanderthals weren’t the strong, strapping cavepeople we imagine

Recreating the Neanderthal mind © Magic Torch

Recreating the Neanderthal brain

Why Neanderthals aren't the brutish, primitive species we once thought © Alamy

Why Neanderthals aren’t the brutish, primitive species we once thought

The bone fragments unearthed in Siberia in 2012 © T Higham/University of Oxford

Ancient Neanderthal-Denisovan hybrid unearthed in Siberian cave

Ella Al-Shamahi © Hsiao Ron Cheng

Did you hear the one about the anthropologist who walked into a comedy club?

hominin-games

The Hominin Games: could we beat our ancestors at athletics?

Human population purged Neanderthal genes © iStock

Human population purged Neanderthal genes