“So, the brain is growing because these creatures need to be able to adapt to their environments, and because this is ...

New analysis of a 140,000-year-old skull morphologically resembling modern humans and Neanderthals may be the earliest ...

Paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi travels the world digging into the origin of Homo sapiens in a five-part BBC series ...

Origins” Premieres Wednesday, September 17 at 9:00 pm Around 300,000 years ago, Homo sapiens emerged in Africa – one of at ...

Learn more about the differences between Homo sapiens and Neanderthals, and how those differences may have helped our ...

Until now, at least 14 different species have been assigned to the genus Homo since it emerged in Ethiopia some 2.8 million years ago revealing branching evolutionary stories of survival, intermixing, ...

Within the limestone chambers of Tinshemet Cave, archaeologists have uncovered a prehistoric social network that’s got experts rethinking what they know about our ancient relatives. The cave, nestled ...

In 1758, Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus gave humans a scientific name: Homo sapiens, which means "wise human" in Latin. Although Linnaeus grouped humans with other apes, it was English biologist ...

WASHINGTON -- Surprising research based on two African fossils suggests our family tree is more like a wayward bush with stubby branches, challenging what had been common thinking on how early humans ...

Around 60,000 years ago, something massive occurred that changed the way of life for our predecessors – Homo sapiens – and thus, us, forever. Over several waves, they started to migrate out of Africa, ...

An ancient jawbone discovered in Taiwan belonged to an enigmatic group of early human ancestors called Denisovans, scientists reported Thursday. Relatively little is known about Denisovans, an extinct ...