New research has revealed that Homo erectus in Java persisted far longer than previously believed, possibly overlapping with ...

Perhaps the biggest difference was that we—meaning people of our species, Homo sapiens—were only one ... about human history was whether our ancestors interacted and mated with these other ...

We are just one branch of a diverse human family tree. Aside from Neanderthals, who were they – and why did we replace them?

Fragments of a Homo erectus skull were among deposits of vertebrate fossils found when the Indonesian seafloor was being ...

One of the reasons for the lack of clarity is the definition of species itself: what do we mean by Homo sapiens? When did modern humans reach each of the 7 continents? Human ancestors arrived in ...

Until now, at least 14 different species have been assigned to the genus Homo since it emerged in Ethiopia ... indicating that our species—H. sapiens—appeared on the scene as early as 300,000 ...

The work, published in Science, suggests a drastic reduction in the population of our ancestors well before our species, Homo sapiens, emerged. The population of breeding individuals was reduced ...

When modern humans began to emerge, our Homo sapiens ancestors were spread out in dozens of specialized populations across Africa. Africa is a massive continent with a highly diverse set of ...

New research suggests that our hominin relatives possessed genetic variations that predisposed them to waking up early and that they passed on these genes to our Homo sapiens ancestors through ...

Perhaps the biggest difference was that we—meaning people of our species, Homo sapiens—were only one of several types ... Until recently, one of the mysteries about human history was whether our ...