Humans aren’t the only animals with numerical awareness, although we are alone in our ability to perform symbolic ...

The Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis) ... This begins with iconic words being spoken by the ancient human species Homo erectus around 1.6 million years ago.

Neanderthals and Denisovans survived for half a million years; Homo erectus lasted nearly two million years. At the rate we’re going, how successful will we look in 2,000 years, much less a million?

Berghuis told the publication that by 350,000 years ago, Homo erectus was being replaced on the Asian mainland by the little-known Denisovans and by Neanderthals, and went extinct by about 108,000 ...

There’s a murky chapter in human evolution, one that occurs right before our species entered the scene. Over 1 million years ago our ancestors belonged to the primitive-looking species Homo ...

The Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis) fascinate researchers and the general public alike. They remain central to debates about the nature of the genus Homo (the broad biological classification ...

Archaeologists working in Southeast Asia recovered 140,000-year-old Homo erectus bones from an extinct human species on the ocean floor, according to new studies. The bones were part of a cache of ...