The origin of our species, Homo sapiens, has puzzled paleoanthropologists for generations — and finding the answer has only gotten more complicated with the discovery of far-flung fossils and the ...

A new study places the divergence of the Homo sapiens lineage more than a million years ago, radically pushing back the timeline of human evolution and revealing a past much more complex than ...

It's easy to accept that the world is home to many species of dolphins, cats or bears -- but the idea that we once roamed the planet with other human beings is more astonishing. We often dismiss our ...

In a rocky outcrop on Mount Carmel, in what is now Israel, a group of ancient humans buried their dead about 140,000 years ago. Scientists uncovered the site, called Skhul Cave, in 1928, and about ...

When scientists found the skull, named Yunxian 2, they assumed it belonged to an earlier ancestor of ours, Homo erectus, the ...

Today, thanks to new artifacts and technologies, findings about our closest relatives are coming thick and fast Tim Vernimmen, Knowable Magazine Neanderthals have ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. BBC’s five-part series “Human” premieres Wednesday as part of the PBS series “Nova,” following paleoanthropologist ...

A fatal genetic incompatibility between Neanderthals and modern humans may have hastened the extinction of our ancient ...

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When the first Homo sapiens appeared on Earth around 300,000 years ago, they weren’t the only humans roaming the land. Our ancestors were one of about nine early human species alive at the time—and ...

In Morocco’s Jebel Irhoud cave, miners stumbled upon skulls that changed everything we knew about human evolution. Dated to 315,000 years ago, these remains show that Homo sapiens evolved across ...