Images released ahead of a new BBC science series depict Homo floresiensis, Homo erectus, Homo neanderthalensis plus the ...

Science News: A new study reveals that ancient Homo sapiens possessed a unique adaptability, thriving in diverse and challenging environments across Africa before t ...

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 ...

On the western slope of Mount Carmel, in Israel, lies the cave of Es-Skhul. About 140,000 years ago, during the Ice Age, nomadic hunter-gatherers made camp here. The sea to the west had receded, expos ...

This region served as a vital link between Africa, where Homo sapiens first appeared, and Eurasia, where Neanderthals and other human types lived.

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 ...

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 ...

World’s Oldest Human Burials Show Neanderthals And Homo Sapiens Shared Culture And Technology The burials mostly belong to hybrids of different hominin species.

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.

Neanderthals went extinct roughly 39,000 years ago, but in some sense these close cousins of our species are not gone. Their legacy lives on in the genomes of most people on Earth, thanks to ...