Ever since Charles Darwin detailed the mechanism of evolution by means of natural selection in 1859, scientists have had a ...

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

Step back in time, folks, and imagine a world of primitive cave dwellers, clad in animal skins, and struggling to … Continue ...

We can begin to control anxiety when we understand its genetic survival value, recognize its distortions, and learn how to ...

Scientists uncovered how ancient blood groups helped Homo sapiens as compared to Neanderthals in their survival and spread ...

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 ...

Homo erectus outlived and outadapted other hominins by mastering life in extreme environments of Eastern Africa, a new study ...

The most striking characteristic of this previously unknown human ancestor? An extremely large brain that’s bigger than that ...

Now a new study suggests at least some of our ancestors ... exclusive to H. sapiens after all. "This adaptive profile, marked ...

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

bridging the gap between earlier ancestors and the rise of Homo sapiens. To reconstruct the environmental conditions during the time of Homo erectus, the research team used advanced modeling ...