The Dawn of Mankind Our journey begins in the depths of time, where our earliest ancestors roamed the earth. These prehistoric beings were far removed from the modern humans that would come to ...

The first anatomically modern humans (Homo sapiens) appear in Africa some time before 100kYA -- they evolved from Homo heidelbergensis. Skip to main content Your source for the latest research news ...

Our species, known in biology as Homo sapiens, first evolved in Africa over 300,000 years ago. The earliest human fossils come from a place called Jebel Irhoud in Morocco, on the northern coast of ...

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

A new documentary brings early human history to life with a "scientifically accurate" collection of hyper-real 3D models.

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 ...

Interestingly, some Neanderthals and Homo heidelbergensis communities buried or deposited their dead in caves - as have many modern human (Homo sapiens) cultures from the Stone Age to the present day.

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 ...

Since the discovery of Neanderthals nearly two centuries ago, paleoanthropologists have grappled with an evolutionary mystery: Why did Homo sapiens survive as a species while their stockier ...