Modern humans emerged roughly 300,000 years ago, but our genus Homo is much older. So what's the oldest human species on ...

Fossilized teeth show that two different kinds of ancient human ancestors coexisted more than 2 million years ago. One of ...

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Evidence is mounting that the evolution of our species is more convoluted than we imagined — more like a braided stream than ...

A team of researchers led by ASU found strange fossils in Ethiopia. They believe they've discovered a new species related to ...

In the dry, rugged badlands of Ethiopia’s Afar Region, a team of scientists has uncovered fossils that could change how you ...

Fossils that for a long time represented the oldest dated Homo sapiens remains but after a while were being perceived as falling just outside of the umbrella of anatomically modern human and ...

The modern Homo Sapiens didn’t just follow other human species; they overlapped with them. Homo sapiens lived alongside Neanderthals and Denisovans, sometimes for thousands of years.

Cave dwelling, clothing and sunscreen may be the reason Homo sapiens outlasted the Neanderthals, a new study suggests. Neanderthals became extinct about 40,000 years ago, leaving modern humans as ...

Ancient Homo sapiens may have benefited from sunscreen, tailored clothes and the use of caves during the shifting of the magnetic North Pole over Europe about 41,000 years ago, new University of ...