Ancient Homo sapiens may have benefited from sunscreen, tailored clothes and the use of caves during the shifting of the ...

Modeling Earth's atmosphere and magnetic field from 41,000 years ago suggests how Homo sapiens' sun-fighting strategy helped ...

The production of tailored clothing and the use of ochre as a sunscreen may have given Homo sapiens an advantage over ...

Ochre clay used in body painting gave our ancestors protection against a rise in harmful UV radiation, say scientists ...

Facial growth stops at puberty in Homo sapiens. Humans differ from chimpanzees and Neanderthals in how their faces grow. In ...

A study by Mukhopadhyay and his colleagues in institutions in the US and Europe has bolstered support for the idea that these ...

A new explanation has emerged for why Homo sapiens survived in Europe and North Asia when the apparently better-adapted ...

Ancient homo sapiens may have benefitted from mineral-based sun protection, living in caves and even tailored clothing.

Less good is the fact that Neanderthal DNA can leave individuals predisposed to developing skin lesions called keratoses, ...

These technologies could have protected Homo sapiens living in Europe from harmful solar radiation. Neanderthals, on the other hand, appear to have lacked these technologies and disappeared around ...