It may be a politically incorrect to say it, but desperate times require words commensurate with the existential threat of ...

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

Neanderthals, who did not have such clothing and possibly did not use ochre as sunblock, disappeared from Europe roughly ...

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

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

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

In a time long before cities, farms, or even written words, early humans across the Levant were already shaping a complex ...

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

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

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

Relatively little is known about Denisovans, an extinct group of human cousins that interacted with Neanderthals and Homo ...