Every person on Earth today can trace their ancestry to Africa, where modern humans (Homo sapiens) emerged at least 300,000 years ago. But our ancestor Homo erectus lived in Africa, Europe and ...

Homo sapiens, the species to which all modern humans belong, evolved in Africa roughly 300,000 years ago. Early Homo sapiens shared the planet with other human species like Neanderthals and Homo ...

For decades, the predominant view of human evolution held that Homo sapiens emerged in Africa between 200,000 and 300,000 ...

Neanderthals and Homo sapiens shared technology and customs in the Levant, shaping early human culture through cooperation.

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

Origin and dispersal of Homo sapiens has been widely, though ever more narrowly, debated between two main competing models—the Multiregional Evolution model and the Out of Africa model.

“Neanderthal and Homo sapiens are sister populations,” said ... and what the cadence of human migration was out of Africa. “These strata broadly share a uniform lithic [stone] technology ...

Modern humans evolved from our hominin ancestors in Africa some 300,000 years ago, according to the oldest known Homo sapiens fossils, which were found in Jebel Irhoud, Morocco. Others discovered ...

Gibraltar 1, the first adult female Neanderthal skull ever discovered The final part of the gallery explores how our species, Homo sapiens, originated in Africa, before dispersing around the world and ...

A groundbreaking discovery reveals Homo sapiens descended from two ancestral groups, not one. This complex origin story ...

Around 100,000 years ago, a group of Homo sapiens-like humans buried five of their dead at Timshenet cave, along with grave goods consisting of animal remains and chunks of red ochre. At the same ...