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

Humans' unique language capacity was present at least 135,000 years ago, according to a survey of genomic evidence. As such, language might have entered social use 100,000 years ago.

New genetic research suggests that humans first developed language around 135,000 years ago when populations began ...

This, in a nutshell, is the heart of the stoned ape theory, or the idea that our impressive cognitive capabilities, like ...

It allowed Homo sapiens to surpass their more substantial ... They created tools, art, music, and civilizations. Over millennia, they expanded their reach—first across continents and then ...

Modern humans and Neanderthals are classified as separate species. According to biologists, they shouldn’t have been able to breed. But they did. We know this because many of us have some Neanderthal ...

All languages likely come from a single original one, and early people began spreading around the world 135,000 years ago.

More than just mere cavemen, our Stone Age kin exhibited intelligence in surprising ways, making them more human than ...

Our species, Homo sapiens, is about 230,000 years old ... but they had fewer existing genetic studies to draw upon. Now, there are much more published data available, which, when considered ...

It will be essential for us as a species to maintain superiority, but [...] we are not the pinnacle of creation,” he says.