(THE CONVERSATION) – Homo sapiens, our own species, evolved in Africa sometime between 300,000 and 200,000 years ago. Anthropologists are pretty confident in that estimate, based on fossil, g… ...

In 1929, archaeologists discovered the 140,000-year-old skeleton of a young girl in Skhūl Cave. The researchers believed her ...

"Humans picked up some Neanderthal DNA through interbreeding, while the Neanderthal population, always fairly small, was ...

A new analysis of DNA from ancient modern humans (Homo sapiens) in Europe and Asia has determined, more precisely than ever, the time period during which Neanderthals interbred with modern humans ...

The skull of a 5-year-old girl who lived 140,000 years ago has similarities with modern Homo sapiens and Neanderthals, ...

The body parts of the child belong to Homo antecessor, believed to be the last common ancestor of both Homo sapiens and ...

A new study published in L’Anthropologie is shedding light on a remarkable discovery from Skhul Cave in Israel. Researchers ...

They used this data to construct a family tree of early Homo sapiens across Europe. They found that all but 13 fragments from the Ranis cave were similar to one another.

Significant brain defects known as Chiari malformations could be down to the genes some of us have inherited from ...

This evidence poses the question of why current human populations are predominantly descended from the latest “out of Africa” ...

The debate around the evolution of modern humans has sparked up new arguments after new information has come to light about Homo sapiens fossils found in East Africa. When looking at the origins of ...