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How was the first language formed?

Nine-year-old Eva was watching an episode of the children’s show Horrible Histories about the stone age recently when a question popped into her head. The cave men were speaking a broken form of English, but Eva thought that didn’t sound right and she wondered: how was the first language formed?

The Conversation · Jul 21

Neanderthals and modern humans may have shared culture 59,000 years ago in Turkey, study finds

Fossils, stone tools and seashells in Turkey show that Neanderthals and the Homo sapiens who moved in later had the same hunting strategies and symbolic traditions even without overlapping at the site, suggesting they may have shared information.

LiveScience · Jul 6

Research group claims preeclampsia doomed the Neanderthals, but experts say it's just a 'thought experiment'

Preeclampsia, a complication of pregnancy that involves high blood pressure, could have led to a decline in Neanderthals' fertility, a new study suggests.

LiveScience · Feb 18

Did Neanderthals eat anything other than meat?

Neanderthals were meat eaters, but new analyses show that their diets included other morsels.

LiveScience · Oct 26, 2025

Did we kill the Neanderthals? New research may finally answer an age-old question.

A complex picture of how Neanderthals died out, and the role that modern humans played in their disappearance, is emerging.

LiveScience · Oct 4, 2024

Rare skeletons up to 30,000 years old reveal when ancient humans went through puberty

An analysis of around a dozen teenagers who lived during the Paleolithic reveals that they hit puberty around the same time modern teens do.

LiveScience · Sep 16, 2024

Ice Age study challenges what we know about teenagers and puberty

Ice Age teenagers entered puberty at roughly the same age as teens today

The Independent UK · Sep 12, 2024

Creative Structures Built By Neanderthals Is Upending How We View the Species

No other structures of this kind have been discovered. But there have been other hints that Neanderthal minds were more complex than we thought.

Inverse · Dec 23, 2023

Neanderthals created Europe's oldest 'intentional' engravings up to 75,000 years ago, study suggests

Neanderthals likely made Europe's oldest engravings in a French cave as long as 75,000 years ago, a study suggests.

LiveScience · Jun 21, 2023