Why Did the Most Successful Early Human Go Extinct? The Ancients host Tristan Hughes sits down with Professor John Mcnabb at ...

In 1974, from the social standpoint, the French sociologist Edgar Morin criticised the designation of Homo sapiens sapiens and observed that Homo is sapiens-demens.

The author of “Sapiens” says that for the first time in tens of thousands of years, humanity has competition. And it’s coming ...

US Army, Iraq War, Ramadi. Homo sapiens are extremely skilled at war. Even after primitive Homo sapiens broke out of Africa 200,000 years ago, it took over 150,000 years to conquer Neanderthal lands.

NPR's Elissa Nadworny speaks with Elena Zavala of the University of California, Berkeley, about new research showing how homo sapiens and Neanderthals interacted and may have even interbred.

Nature’s Freeloaders: What Commensalism Really Looks Like in the Wild Exhausted dog collapses in heat, hero carries him for ...

For much of Homo sapiens ’ existence, there were negligible physical differences between them and Neanderthals, and the cultural differences are archaeologically imperceptible.

Humans and Neanderthals could have lived together even earlier than we thought A provocative new study suggests that Homo sapiens moved into Europe in three waves. Laura Baisas May 4, 2023 11:00 ...

Modern humans (Homo sapiens) are the sole surviving representatives of the human family tree, but we're the last sentence in an evolutionary story that began approximately 6 million years ago and ...

Since the discovery of Neanderthals nearly two centuries ago, paleoanthropologists have grappled with an evolutionary mystery: Why did Homo sapiens survive as a species while their stockier ...

Logically, then, there must have been a moment when Homo sapiens became a distinct species. Yet that moment is surprisingly hard to pin down. The problem, for once, isn’t a lack of fossils.

Archeologists know early humans used stone to make tools long before the time of Homo sapiens. But a new discovery out this week in Nature suggests early humans in eastern Africa were also using ...