To conclude, we believe that the designation Homo sapiens sapiens should be changed to Homo sapiens demensas a pedagogical principle so that we can have a new, more realistic awareness of our true ...

More evidence emerges that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens made love and not war thousands of years ago. By Laura Baisas. Published Nov 2, 2022 1:00 PM EDT.

Homo sapiens are extremely skilled at war. Even after primitive Homo sapiens broke out of Africa 200,000 years ago , it took over 150,000 years to conquer Neanderthal lands.

Item 1 of 4 A Homo sapiens bone fragment from excavations at a cave site in the German town of Ranis provides new insight into the arrival of Homo sapiens in the region thousands of years earlier ...

Homo naledi, an extinct human relative, buried dead and carved symbols long before modern humans, new research at the Rising Star cave system in South Africa found.

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 ...

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 ...

NPR's Elissa Nadworny speaks with Elena Zavala of the University of California, Berkeley, about new research showing how homo sapiens and Neanderthals interacted and may have even interbred.

SCIENCE SHORTS. Why Did Homo Sapiens Outlive Neanderthals? Their Teeth Offer a Clue Dental enamel suggests our extinct cousins experienced longer periods of stress during childhood ...

Yet despite this closeness, Neanderthals' (Homo neanderthalensis) and Homo sapiens' lineages diverged sometime between 400,000 and 800,000 years ago, and the two species differed in many ways.Here ...

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 ...