A new ecological model suggests Neanderthals and modern humans interbred in the Zagros Mountains in what is now Iran before going their separate ways 80,000 years ago.

Discover interesting facts about the origin of the human species and what makes us different from our ape cousins.

How did the earliest members of the modern human species get here? Who did we evolve from? How did we live? Where did we live ...

The debate around the evolution of modern humans has intensified with new findings about Homo sapiens fossils from East ...