Early human evolution may have been more complex than scientists previously thought, with modern humans evolving from two ...

A deep-rooted population structure emerged, suggesting modern humans, Homo sapiens, are the result of a population that split ...

Even though humans are the only remaining hominin species on the planet, our family tree is actually more complicated than ...

While scientists know humans (homo sapiens) emerged in Africa around 300,000 years ago, before this monumental event much of our history has been hazy. Now a team from the University of ...

More than just mere cavemen, our Stone Age kin exhibited intelligence in surprising ways, making them more human than ...

This finding significantly extends the known timeline of the Homo sapiens lineage by more than 100,000 years. These discoveries help bridge gaps in the fossil record and challenge existing ...

The first-ever published research out of Tinshemet Cave indicates the two human species regularly interacted and shared ...

Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long before modern humans spread across the globe.

“Most of the hominins that we see during this period of time are hybrids ,” study author Professor Yossi Zaidner told ...

Our human evolution expert Professor Chris Stringer, who has been studying Neanderthals and Homo sapiens for about 50 years, tackles the big question of whether we belong to the same species. Everyone ...

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 ...