The origins of cultural innovations in early Homo sapiens have sparked much debate. However, a significant discovery in Grotta di Castelcivita, southern Italy, may resolve one such long-standing ...

The history of human settlement in the valleys of the Pyrenees and Pre-Pyrenees has always been closely tied to climate ...

Prior research has shown that interbreeding occurred between Neanderthal and Homo sapiens populations—Neanderthal DNA has been found in the genome of modern humans. What is still not known is ...

In this book, Harari examines humanity's potential future, speculating how technological advances and artificial intelligence ...

The discovery of a Neanderthal named Thorin reveals a previously unknown lineage that diverged from other Neanderthals ...

A long-running argument between archaeologists and geneticists has finally been settled - and the answer could help explain ...

Researchers reveal how past climate shifts and vegetation changes drove the evolution and migration of early human species ...

You might think our early Homo sapiens ancestors were too busy fending off saber-tooth cats or inventing fire to worry about dating, but turns out, they were pretty social. In fact, about 50,000 ...

So, using my long-dormant zoology degree, I realized that we've almost created a new species. Humans are known as Homo ...

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 ...

Despite its proximity to other groups of Neanderthals and the era’s modern humans, the lineage of the specimen, dubbed ...