On Earth today, there is only one species of humans. Us. Homo sapiens to use our scientific term. But this was not always the ...

A uniquely preserved prehistoric mudhole could hold the oldest-ever human footprints on the Arabian Peninsula, scientists say ...

Though some might be surprised to see Neanderthal DNA in their ancestry test results, people of non-African descent derive 1 ...

Smithsonian paleoanthropologists explore how the year brought us closer to understanding ancient human relatives and origins ...

The study found that unlike other vertebrates where competition generally suppresses speciation after ecological niches are ...

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

University of California, Berkeley Assistant Professor’s Study Provides a New Timeline for Neanderthal Interbreeding with ...

Many species of animals go through mass migrations, but there’s likely no species on Earth that has migrated to more ...

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