The debate around the evolution of modern humans has intensified with new findings about Homo sapiens fossils from East ...

Previously, scientists thought Homo sapiens arrived right around the time Neanderthals went extinct. Researchers on the hunt to settle a long-standing debate ended up rewriting the timeline of ...

The findings help pin down dates for out-of-Africa migration and the dispersal of Homo sapiens. A new analysis of DNA from ancient modern humans (Homo sapiens) in Europe and Asia has determined ...

The Homo sapiens fossils found beneath Ranis Castle in central Germany were already the oldest evidence of our species in northern Europe. Now, these ancient German fossils have torn up the timeline ...

It is now recognised that at least two main natural corridors for crossing the Pyrenees were frequented by prehistoric human groups: the “Basque Crossroads” in the west and the Cerdanya valley in the ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

The international team of 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. The discovery could ...

Over 1 million years ago our ancestors belonged to the primitive-looking species Homo erectus. Jump to 300,000 years ago and Earth is home to at least three lineages of big-brained humans: Homo ...

PARIS: Our ancestor Homo erectus was able to survive punishingly hot and dry desert more than a million years ago, according to a new study that casts doubt on the idea that Homo sapiens were the ...

Early humans made tools out of bone 1.5 million years ago : Short Wave Archeologists know early humans used stone to make tools long before the time of Homo sapiens.But a new discovery out this ...

These Homo sapiens—nomadic hunter-gatherers who populated ... are specific to the place and time of its formation in Earth's geology. This allows us to know, after detailed study, the origin ...