Studies of genes and fossils agree that Homo sapiens evolved in Africa 200,000 years ago. But although these earliest humans looked like us, it’s not clear they thought like us.

The debate around the evolution of modern humans has intensified with new findings about Homo sapiens fossils from East Africa. The oldest remains currently known were discovered at Djebel Irhoud ...

Fossils once thought to represent the oldest dated Homo sapiens remains are now categorized as a subspecies of Homo sapiens: Idaltu. This raises the question: Are they a new subspecies or merely ...

The first-ever published research on Tinshemet Cave reveals that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens in the mid-Middle Paleolithic Levant not only coexisted but actively interacted, sharing technology ...

Logically, then, there must have been a moment when Homo sapiens became a distinct species. Yet that moment is surprisingly hard to pin down. The problem, for once, isn’t a lack of fossils.

For example, about 80 percent of white Hispanic autistic males with epilepsy carried a particular Neandertal SNP in the USP47 gene, compared with 15 percent of those in the nonautistic control group.

Homo erectus, not sapiens, first humans to survive desert: Study. The moment when the first members of the extended human family called hominins adapted to life in desert or tropical forests marks ...

The study, published in the journal Nature, opens new tab and involving the oldest Homo sapiens DNA ever sequenced, gave a date range for the mixing of about 49,000 to 45,000 years ago.

Rewriting our ancient past. Despite going extinct around 40,000 years ago, the genes of Neanderthals are still found in humans today. The exact Neanderthal DNA percentage in H. sapiens varies, ...

We’ve known for some time now that Homo sapiens and Neanderthals, also known as archaic humans, interbred before Neanderthals went extinct around 40,000 years ago.In fact, in some ways, Neanderthals ...