Ancient artifacts such as stone tools and fossils, including ancient human skulls and teeth, provide crucial information for understanding the origins of modern ... that first appeared in Africa ...

It had been believed for quite some time that modern humans first appeared in East Africa around ... Perspective by Stringer and Galway-Witham). During excavations of sediments at Mount Carmel ...

"We haven't seen modern-human DNA in Neanderthals," Krause said, but beyond that, they are mostly guessing about what happened when the two groups first met. However, Priya Moorjani, a geneticist ...

This was many millions of years before the first modern humans, Homo sapiens, appeared. Scientists divide the Mesozoic Era into three periods: the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous. During this era, ...

The upheaval may also have had something to do with the fact that the first populations of modern humans, Homo sapiens, appeared in Europe during this period and displaced the last European ...