Around 41,000 years ago, Earth’s magnetic field underwent a chaotic shift that temporarily weakened the planet’s natural ...

Understanding how early Homo sapiens ventured into Eurasia offers key insights into human evolution, the extinction of Neanderthals, and the rise of modern humans. Recent discoveries reveal that ...

Ever wondered what the world looked like when Homo sapiens first roamed the Earth? In this video, we journey through time to ...

Map showing theorised migration routes of early Homo sapiens from Africa (Ted Goebel via Eurekalert) After groups of early humans went apart geographically, each subpopulation developed genetic ...

While it is generally accepted that the forerunner to Homo sapiens - Homo erectus - left Africa about 1.5 million years ago to populate other parts of the world, there are two main theories about ...

Standing proud in the Museum's Human Evolution gallery are two of the most scientifically accurate reconstructions that exist of a Neanderthal and early modern human. Find out how these lifelike ...

Until now, at least 14 different species have been assigned to the genus Homo since it emerged ... indicating that our species—H. sapiens—appeared on the scene as early as 300,000 years ...

an early human subspecies that displayed thinner facial features similar to modern Homo sapiens. However, a 1.2 to 1.1-million-year-old hominin jawbone discovered in 2007 at the country’s Sima ...