The climate and early human societies were changing quickly during the fall of our closest evolutionary relative—and are big ...

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 ...

Gibraltar 1, the first adult female Neanderthal skull ever discovered The final part of the gallery explores how our species, Homo sapiens, originated in Africa, before dispersing around the world and ...

For decades, the predominant view of human evolution held that Homo sapiens emerged in Africa between 200,000 and 300,000 ...

Homo sapiens, the species to which all modern humans belong, evolved in Africa roughly 300,000 years ago. Early Homo sapiens shared the planet with other human species like Neanderthals and Homo ...