M odern humans ( Homo sapiens) are the sole surviving representatives of the human family tree, but we're the last sentence ...

The climate and early human societies were changing quickly during the fall of our closest evolutionary relative—and are big clues to the causes of their demise.

Out of Africa The accepted ideas about human evolution today are the "Out of Africa" theories, which propose that H. sapiens evolved in Africa and spread to the other continents, sometimes ...

Neanderthals tended to bury their dead in caves, while early modern humans buried their dead in the fetal position, new research finds.

Enigmatic human fossil jawbone may be evidence of an early *Homo sapiens* presence in Europe – and adds mystery about who those humans were ...

The authors of a comprehensive study of all mutations known to be unique to H. sapiens (as of 2019) concluded that “modifications of a complex network in cognition or learning took place in modern ...

In that split, the Denisovans—which could have included both the Dragon Man and Yunxian Man lines—went extinct, while the H. sapiens line continued to evolve into modern humans.

Our species mated with the Neanderthals much later than thought. New research reveals that Neanderthal genes entered our own DNA within the past 50,000 years, rewriting the story of how Homo sapiens ...

Recent reconstructions of the genomic histories of fossil H. sapiens, Neandertals, and the Denisovans confirm not only that interspecific breeding took place but also that it produced fertile ...

All of them except for H. sapiens have since fallen into extinction, but there were points where we inhabited a world shared by several human species.

The H. sapiens brain developed its spherical form with neural networks connecting what had been isolated semantic clusters of words. These remained isolated in the Neanderthal brain.