For decades, common scientific knowledge has held that homo sapiens—human beings as we know them today—evolved in Africa some ...

The Many Humans of the Globe As our species (Homo sapiens) evolved and spread across the globe, they were contemporary with ...

Neanderthals went extinct roughly 39,000 years ago, but in some sense these close cousins of our species are not gone. Their ...

While Neanderthals and modern humans lived together in Europe for only a relatively short time, two separate studies found ...

Research conducted at the Department of Biology, University of Padova, has identified critical genomic milestones in the ...

Picture shows an artist’s impression of ancient humans from Ranis, Germany and the Czech Republic traveling together 45,000 ...

Their legacy lives on in the genomes of most people on Earth, thanks to interbreeding between Homo sapiens and Neanderthals. New research is providing the most precise estimate to date of when ...

Humans once had a way smaller footprint. "Homo Sapiens, modern humans, evolved in Africa," says Arev Sümer, a paleogenetics ...

including early Homo sapiens," said Wu. This characteristic, along with their diverse physical traits, underscores the complexity of human evolution, particularly in eastern Asia. For decades ...

"Homo sapiens are currently undergoing a dispersal, which first started out of Africa, reached other continents, and has now begun in off-world environments." ...