Facial growth stops at puberty in Homo sapiens. Humans differ from chimpanzees and Neanderthals in how their faces grow. In ...

A 210,000-year-old skull from Greece’s Apidima Cave reveals the earliest known Homo sapiens outside Africa, pushing back the ...

Stone tools unearthed in China's Yunnan province suggest Neanderthals or another ancient human species adapted to harsh ...

A groundbreaking discovery in Greece reveals the first known Homo sapiens outside Africa, reshaping our understanding of ...

Over 100,000 years ago, a mysterious group of ancient humans walked the lands of eastern Asia. Known as the Juluren—meaning ...

The academic and author discusses what to expect from the singularity, the need for AI self-correcting mechanisms, and what ...

Paranthropus was an ape-like hominin that survived alongside early humans for more than a million years. A fossilised leg ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. If Italian homes are renowned for their warm welcome, Villa Colucci in Puglia may have the edge. Here, you ...

Both the Neanderthals and Denisovans interbred with Homo sapiens around 50,000 years ago. While Neanderthal DNA accounts for around 2 percent of the genome of non-African modern humans ...

Subsequently, language might have entered social use 100,000 years ago. Our species, Homo sapiens, is about 230,000 years old. Estimates of when language originated vary widely, based on different ...

Homo sapiens, the species to which all modern humans belong, evolved in Africa roughly 300,000 years ago. Early Homo sapiens shared the planet with other human species like Neanderthals and Homo ...

Ukraine's General Staff on March 14 denied claims that Ukrainian troops were encircled in Kursk Oblast amid Russia's ongoing offensive in the region. The General Staff said that Russia had been ...