The third confirmed location of extinct hominins known as Denisovans shows these human cousins adapted to an impressive range of environments ...

In a time long before cities, farms, or even written words, early humans across the Levant were already shaping a complex ...

Os bonobos ou chimpanzés-pigmeus, famosos por serem os primos "paz e amor" do Homo sapiens, também têm capacidades ...

A team of scientists found a human footprint that was more than 15,000 years old and challenged the timeline of human ...

Piecing together the story of Europe’s earliest settlers is a challenge, largely because relevant human fossils are scarce. On March 12, researchers announced the discovery of a new fossil from the ...

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 ...

But they did. We know this because many of us have some Neanderthal DNA. We find out what we gained when Homo sapiens mated with Homo neanderthalensis many thousands of years ago. Watch as ...

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 ...

The upper jawbone and partial cheek bone represent a mysterious unknown species that lived in present-day Spain between 1.1 million and 1.4 million years ago, according to a new study ...

The research team at the Atapuerca archaeological sites in Burgos, Spain, has just broken its own record by discovering, for ...