Our Human Evolution gallery explores the origins of Homo sapiens, tracing our lineage since it split from that of our closest living relatives, the chimpanzee and the bonobo. Gallery developer Jenny ...

The precise timeline of Homo sapiens' evolution in Africa remains uncertain. However, current fossil and genetic evidence suggests that modern humans and Neanderthals diverged at least 500,000 ...

Hublin explains that Neanderthal, Denisova and Homo Sapiens, the three great terminal forms of humanity between which the evolutionary match was to be played, were all big-brained. Back 300,000 ...

New research is showing that Homo sapiens underwent huge changes ... it’s possible that the Rh alleles provided an ...

Neanderthals and Homo sapiens shared technology and customs in the Levant, shaping early human culture through cooperation.

The early modern human in the Museum's Human Evolution gallery is 175cm tall and in his fifties Early modern humans were taller and less stocky than Neanderthals, perhaps more suited to endurance ...