Discover interesting facts about the origin of the human species and what makes us different from our ape cousins.

There were at least nine Homo species — including H. sapiens — distributed around Africa, Europe and Asia by about 300,000 years ago, according to the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural ...

Tradition says that Homo neanderthalensis and Homo sapiens were intellectually distinct. But archaeologists and anthropologists increasingly insist that the intellectual divide between the two species ...

Since the discovery of Neanderthals nearly two centuries ago, paleoanthropologists have grappled with an evolutionary mystery: Why did Homo sapiens survive as a species while their stockier ...

The brains belonging to the extinct species, known as Homo naledi, ... The burials are older than any known Homo sapiens burials by at least 100,000 years.

The species Homo sapiens (or “wise man”) began to evolve about 300,000 years ago, and eventually won out the evolutionary battle and became the only Homo species to reign on Earth about 40,000 ...

NPR's Elissa Nadworny speaks with Elena Zavala of the University of California, Berkeley, about new research showing how homo sapiens and Neanderthals interacted and may have even interbred.

In addition to the Neanderthals, H. sapiens met other humans of different species along the way: Denisovans in Central Asia, Homo luzonensis in the Pacific, Homo floresiensis in Southeast Asia ...

The Homo sapiens fossils found beneath Ranis Castle in central Germany were already the oldest evidence of our species in northern Europe.Now, these ancient German fossils have torn up the timeline of ...