Early human evolution may have been more complex than scientists previously thought, with modern humans evolving from two ...

Even though humans are the only remaining hominin species on the planet, our family tree is actually more complicated than ...

A genomic analysis suggests humans had the cognitive capacity for language at least 135,000 years ago, based on early ...

More than just mere cavemen, our Stone Age kin exhibited intelligence in surprising ways, making them more human than ...

The first-ever published research out of Tinshemet Cave indicates the two human species regularly interacted and shared ...

The discovery that farming might not have been the catalyst for civilisation means we must completely rethink the timeline of ...

This finding significantly extends the known timeline of the Homo sapiens lineage by more than 100,000 years. These discoveries help bridge gaps in the fossil record and challenge existing ...

Surprising new research suggests that the timeline extends more than 80,000 ... an international team of researchers claims that humans (Homo sapiens) began living in rainforests as early as ...

“Most of the hominins that we see during this period of time are hybrids ,” study author Professor Yossi Zaidner told ...

Today, there are more than eight billion of us. Logically, then, there must have been a moment when Homo sapiens became a distinct species. Yet that moment is surprisingly hard to pin down.