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

According to recent studies, H. sapiens evolved from earlier hominins in Africa about 300,000 years ago, and our species first dispersed from there about 200,000 years ago, or roughly 100,000 ...

The existence of so many similarities and the ability to hybridize have sparked debates for decades. Some researchers argue that H. sapiens and Neanderthals were actually members of a single ...

More recently, evidence for an earlier H. sapiens presence in Europe has come from two sites in Eastern Europe, including a partial skull from Zlatý kůň Cave in Czechia dating to 45,000 years ...

Early H. sapiens either buried their dead outside of caves, or under the cave entrances, not under the roofs of caves." Sign up for the Live Science daily newsletter now.

H. sapiens first appeared in Africa and went on to inhabit every continent of Earth. This tendency for exploration has even seen them land on the Moon a couple of times and have plans to return ...

To complicate the effort beyond having so few fossils to work with, the Yunxian Man fossil is believed to be roughly 1 million years old—much older than either the Dragon Man or H. sapiens.

Both the H. sapiens and Dragon Man lineages had deep roots extending beyond the Middle Pleistocene, and the basal position of the Yunxian fossil cranium suggests it represents a population lying ...

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. So, while H.

Rewriting our ancient past. Despite going extinct around 40,000 years ago, the genes of Neanderthals are still found in humans today. The exact Neanderthal DNA percentage in H. sapiens varies, ...

Until now, at least 14 different species have been assigned to the genus Homo since it emerged in Ethiopia some 2.8 million years ago, revealing branching evolutionary stories of survival, intermixing ...

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.