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.

Homo sapiens reached north America 16,000 years ago and by 10,000 BC had occupied the southern tip of south America. The same story as recounted for Australia unfolded in America — the megafauna ...

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 ...

There were at least nine Homo species — including H. sapiens — distributed around Africa, Europe and Asia by about 300,000 ...

Newly published research appearing in the journal Nature (Ragsdale, A. P. et al., “A weakly structured stem for human origins in Africa,” Nature [2023]) proposes a new interpretation regarding ...

"For me, Homo sapiens evolved between 1 million and 700,000 years ago in Africa," John Hawks, a paleoanthropologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, told Live Science in an email.

Homo antecessor is likely a direct ancestor living 750,000 years ago evolving into Homo heidelbergensis appearing in the fossil record living roughly 600,000 to 250,000 years ago through various ...

Researchers found human bones and tools hiding behind a massive rock in a German cave, the oldest traces of Homo sapiens ever discovered so far north. Latest U.S.

The cover depicts a computer-generated graphic of a lysine-specific molecular tweezer (metallic scaffolding) binding to a 14-3-3 protein from Homo sapiens (white mass). The protein's target lysine ...