“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 ...

Meanwhile, three teeth, found in 2015, belong to the genus Homo, which includes modern humans, or Homo sapiens. The results were published ... “That deposited dirt contains the fossils — of our ...

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 ...

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, ...

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

Neanderthals and Homo sapiens shared many similarities. But Neanderthals disappeared, while Homo sapiens evolved into modern ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Paleolithic cuisine was anything but lean and green, according to a study on the diets of our Pleistocene ancestors. For a good 2 million years, Homo sapiens and their ancestors ditched the salad and ...