Around 100,000 years ago, a group of Homo sapiens-like humans buried five of their dead at Timshenet cave, along with grave goods consisting of animal remains and chunks of red ochre. At the same ...

Homo sapiens have been around for about 200,000 ... languages and even the first cave drawings. In other words, that so-called "human revolution" of around 40,000 years ago, sometimes referred ...

Homo sapiens progressed further cognitively, with complex and abstract thoughts and language. Their tools, art, and other symbolic objects allude to significant cultural and technological ...

While it is generally accepted that the forerunner to Homo sapiens - Homo erectus - left Africa about 1.5 million years ago to populate other parts of the world, there are two main theories about ...

Our human evolution expert Professor Chris Stringer, who has been studying Neanderthals and Homo sapiens for about 50 years, tackles the big question of whether we belong to the same species. Everyone ...

Homo sapiens migrated out of Africa roughly 50,000 years ago, but scientists have now discovered that some chose to remain ...

Relatively little is known about Denisovans, an extinct group of human cousins that interacted with Neanderthals and our own species, Homo sapiens. “ Denisovan fossils are very scarce,” with ...