Homo sapiens: we’ve been through a lot these past 300,000 or so years. Now we have our own TV show.

M odern humans ( Homo sapiens) are the sole surviving representatives of the human family tree, but we're the last sentence ...

A 140,000-year-old hybrid child's skull found in Israel shows traits of both Homo sapiens and Neanderthals, rewriting the ...

The skull of a 5-year-old girl who lived 140,000 years ago has similarities with modern Homo sapiens and Neanderthals, ...

In the hills of southwestern China, near the ancient shoreline of Fuxian Lake, a major archaeological discovery has reshaped ...

For nearly a century, scientists have been puzzling over fossils from a strange and robust-looking distant relative of early ...

The research also highlights that earlier Homo sapiens population in Europe (and beyond) was highly structured, where most of ...

A child buried in the world's oldest human cemetery had both modern human (Homo sapiens) and Neanderthal characteristics, ...

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

A new documentary brings early human history to life with a "scientifically accurate" collection of hyper-real 3D models.

"Humans picked up some Neanderthal DNA through interbreeding, while the Neanderthal population, always fairly small, was ...

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.