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 ...

The remains have helped to fill in gaps in the fossil record and move science closer to understanding human evolution in ...

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

The Spanish team says the latest remains are more primitive than Homo antecessor but bear a resemblance to Homo erectus.

Archaeologists in Israel have uncovered 100,000-year-old burials in a cave, revealing early human rituals and symbolic ...

Humans stand apart from many other primates by taking more time to mature, relying on a supportive network during a long ...

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

One of the most profound questions about human history is when language, as we know it, first emerged. A new analysis of ...

This date serves as a “lower boundary” for when language capacity must have emerged. But since Homo sapiens is at least ...