The genetic hardware that gave rise to humanity’s unique language capabilities first emerged at least 135,000 years ago, when ...

For the past 40,000 years, Homo sapiens have been the only human species on Earth. Our ancestors, including the Neanderthals ...

Sapiens began to communicate using a new type of language that, ... Homo sapiens reached north America 16,000 years ago and by 10,000 BC had occupied the southern tip of south America.

How Neanderthal language differed from modern human – they probably didn’t use metaphors ... Homo sapiens. We shared an ancestor with the Neanderthals around 600,000 years ago.

The burials are older than any known Homo sapiens burials by at least 100,000 years. ... and researchers can’t say whether they were used as a type of language or communication within the species.

Neanderthals, formally called Homo neanderthalensis, were more robustly built than Homo sapiens and had larger brows. They lived from around 430,000 years ago until their disappearance relatively ...

Neanderthal and Homo sapiens interbreeding. We know that our species interbred with Neanderthals since our relatives' first genomes were sequenced. However, the Neanderthal genes we have in us today ...

The new dating of an object found decades ago in Poland reinforces the idea that early humans in Central Europe had ...

Stibel believes that a changing climate, and not language, could explain our smaller brains. In a 2023 study, he analysed the skulls of 298 Homo sapiens over the past 50,000 years. He found that ...

The burials are older than any known Homo sapiens burials by at least 100,000 years. A reconstruction of Homo naledi's head by paleoartist John Gurche, who spent some 700 hours recreating the head ...