Small bands of Homo sapiens made a few failed forays leaving our home continent before the species finally managed to launch a major dispersal out of Africa roughly 50,000 years ago, going first into ...

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.

Multiple lines of mysterious ancient humans interbred with us. Modern DNA suggests that the Denisovans were surprisingly diverse—and may have been the last humans other than Homo sapiens on Earth.

Humans are the only animal that lives in virtually every possible environment, from rainforests to deserts to tundra.

Our ancestor Homo erectus was able to survive punishingly hot and dry desert more than a million years ago, according to a ...

The burials are older than any known Homo sapiens burials by at least 100,000 years. A reconstruction of Homo naledi's head by paleoartist John Gurche, who spent some 700 hours recreating the head ...

The species Homo sapiens (or “wise man”) began to evolve about 300,000 years ago, and eventually won out the evolutionary battle and became the only Homo species to reign on Earth about 40,000 ...

A provocative new study suggests that Homo sapiens moved into Europe in three waves. By Laura Baisas. Published May 4, 2023 11:00 AM EDT.

Homo sapiens likely arose from multiple closely related populations Date: May 17, 2023 Source: University of California - Davis Summary: In testing the genetic material of current populations in ...

About 40,000 years ago, Neanderthals, who had lived for hundreds of thousands of years in the western part of the Eurasian continent, gave way to Homo sapiens, who had arrived from Africa. This ...