Homo sapiens

A recent study suggests the reason modern Europeans possess less Neanderthal DNA as compared to today's East Asians could be linked to the migration of Ancient Middle Eastern farmers. People with roots outside of Africa typically have around two percent...

Archaeologists have made a fascinating discovery of the oldest wooden structure that sheds new light on our history. They've found evidence that humans were using wood to build things much earlier than we originally believed and as early as...

New research from an Israeli archaeological dig has proven that modern humans and Neanderthals lived together some 50,000 years ago.

Archaeologists have reconstructed the face of a Paleolithic woman whose human skull was found buried inside a cave in 1881 in the hamlet of Mlade located in today's Czech Republic. The subject was identified as male at the time,...

New emerging evidence discovered in South Africa nullifies prior suggestions indicating that homo sapiens was the first species to use fire. Analysis of fossil remains unearthed from the Rising Star Cave system in South Africa indicates that Homo naledi, an...

In a cave in the south of France, researchers have found artefacts that suggest Homo sapiens were the first in Europe to use bows and arrows as a kind of weaponry. Archery was used in Europe almost 40,000 years earlier...

There may be humans who look more or less like us in the year million, but they won’t be alone.  By Anders Sandberg Most species are transitory. They go extinct, branch into new species or change over time due to random...

An exploratory study by North Carolina State University is offering new insights on the interbreeding between Neandertals and modern humans.

Paleoanthropologists have reportedly discovered what they claim to be a new hominin species in northeastern China. The skull was discovered outside of Harbin, and has a combination of features so divergent from Homo sapiens, Denisovans, and Neanderthals, that researchers...

A new study published on Wednesday argues that the first Homo Sapiens in Europe took shelter in a cave in France. The study, which was published in Science Advances, points to multiple artifacts recovered in the cave -- including stone...