Discover the latest news, features and articles about the origin of the human species and what makes us different from our ...

They open up the possibility of an evolutionary link with the oldest known Homo sapiens fossils – those from Jebel Irhoud in Morocco, dated to around 315,000 years ago. These discoveries help clarify ...

Newly published research appearing in the journal Nature (Ragsdale, A. P. et al., “A weakly structured stem for human origins in Africa,” Nature [2023]) proposes a new interpretation regarding the ...

Discover the latest news, features and articles about who Neanderthals were, whether they mated with modern humans and when ...

When ancient humans mated, dad was a Neanderthal, mom was Homo sapiens.

A study shows that interbreeding between the two species occurred primarily in one direction, and the origin of this bias is ...

In 2021, scientists made a breakthrough when they classified a 140,000-year-old skull from Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, as ...

The highly-regarded anthropologist Terrence Deacon, who studies the evolution of humans’ language and symbolic capacity, among other things, once said at a conference at Binghamton University “Humans ...

A new study published by researchers at London's Natural History Museum and Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven has reinforced the claim that Neanderthals and modern-day humans (Homo sapiens) must be ...

Modern humans are often seen as the pinnacle of evolution and the only ones to have grown and developed over centuries. But in evolutionary terms, not long ago, we shared the planet with a number of ...

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