"Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari is a sweeping and insightful exploration of our species' journey from its humble beginnings ...

A team of paleoanthropologists and geneticists from Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, EFS, ADES has found evidence of what may have been a contributing factor to the decline of Neanderthals. In their paper ...

Human populations that left Africa evolved quickly whereas Neanderthals stayed the same, according to an analysis of blood ...

An extremely large brain that’s bigger than that of our species, Homo sapiens, the only surviving hominin ... between more ...

The prehistoric human skull found in the Petralona Cave in Northern Greece challenges the Out of Africa theory of the origin of Homo sapiens ...

But what kind of human? It was too big and rippled, he thought, to have come from a modern Homo sapiens. And though it superficially resembled a Neanderthal tooth, remains of that species had ...

Scientists have long thought that only Homo sapiens, who first appeared around ... Olduvai Gorge in modern-day Tanzania, was thought to be home to those easier types of landscapes.

Tens of thousands of years ago, an extraordinary chapter in the story of humanity unfolded. Two distinct branches of the human family tree—modern humans and Neanderthals—crossed paths in a meeting ...