Deep in a South African cave, a revolutionary discovery is challenging everything we thought we knew about human evolution.

In the flicker of those ancient fires — built not for feasting, but for vigilance and smoking meat — Homo erectus paved the ...

The debate around the evolution of modern humans has intensified with new findings about Homo sapiens fossils from East Africa. The oldest remains currently known were discovered at Djebel Irhoud in ...

New Timeline! Posted: May 27, 2025 | Last updated: May 27, 2025 New evidence from the Mandrin Cave in Southern France suggests that Homo sapiens occupied Europe at least 10,000 years earlier than ...

An international study led by researchers from Friedrich Schiller University Jena uncovered 80,000-year-old stone blades made by Homo sapiens in Arabia, representing the oldest evidence of ...

Today, there are more than eight billion of us. Logically, then, there must have been a moment when Homo sapiens became a distinct species. Yet that moment is surprisingly hard to pin down.

Researchers from the University of Aix-Marseille studied the genomes of several ancient individuals—Neanderthals, Denisovans, and Homo sapiens. The study reveals that Neanderthals possessed a ...

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 ...

So famous, they named the local pub after Piltdown Man 14 February 1912 - Charles Dawson writes to his friend Arthur Smith Woodward, vertebrate palaeontologist and keeper of geology at the ... time ...

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 ...

Their legacy lives on in the genomes of most people on Earth, thanks to interbreeding between Homo sapiens and Neanderthals. New research is providing the most precise estimate to date of when ...