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

Scientists have uncovered evidence that modern humans emerged from two long-separated ancestral groups, not just one. This ...

Early human evolution may have been more complex than scientists previously thought, with modern humans evolving from two ...

Even though humans are the only remaining hominin species on the planet, our family tree is actually more complicated than ...

Long before the rise of the Homo sapiens civilization, our ancestors walked the valleys of East Africa over a million years ...

New genetic research suggests that humans first developed language around 135,000 years ago when populations began ...

A new genetic study suggests humans developed language at least 135,000 years ago, reshaping our understanding of early ...

It's currently unknown if these burials belong to early modern humans, human-Neanderthal hybrids ... or if they came up with ...

Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long before modern humans spread across the globe.

It is a deep question, from deep in our history: when did human language as we know it emerge? A new survey of genomic ...