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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

A team of evolutionary scientists at Universidad de Cantabria, in Spain, working with a colleague from Mott MacDonald Ltd., in the U.K., has found evidence that suggests Homo sapiens and ...

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 ...

For decades, the accepted theory of human migration suggested that Homo sapiens arrived to America around 15,000 years ago, and that they were the very first humans to roam North America.

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 ...