Anthropologists at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History and an international team of collaborators have discovered that early humans in East Africa had—by about 320,000 years ago—begun ...

A 140,000-year-old hybrid child's skull found in Israel shows traits of both Homo sapiens and Neanderthals, rewriting the ...

After reinvestigating a site in modern-day Côte d’Ivoire, an international team of researchers claims that humans (Homo sapiens) began living in rainforests as early as 150,000 years ago—tens ...

Modern humans first appeared only 200,000 years ago. Vocativ Vocativ created this graphic showing how the fossil has changed what we know about the timeline of the origin of humankind.

Early humans may have first walked upright in the trees. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2022 / 12 / 221214180655.htm ...

The Neanderthal DNA found in modern human genomes has long raised questions about ancient interbreeding. New studies offer a timeline of when that occurred and when ancient humans left Africa.

Ancient humans were living in the highlands of what is now Ethiopia as early as 2 million years ago. A reanalysis of a fossilised jawbone from the region confirms that it belonged to a Homo ...

The Paleolithic (or Old Stone Age) was the earliest and longest phase of human prehistory, lasting from about 3.3/2.5 million years ago to roughly 12,000 years ago.