Learn more about the differences between Homo sapiens and Neanderthals, and how those differences may have helped our ancestors adapt and evolve while Neanderthals went extinct.

The Origins Of Homo Sapiens With Professor Chris Stringer' From where did humans originate? What did the earliest humans look ...

New analysis of a 140,000-year-old skull morphologically resembling modern humans and Neanderthals may be the earliest ...

Neanderthals had short, stocky bodies and prominent brow ridges. They were capable tool makers and extremely skilled hunters. Though Neanderthals existed at the same time as homo sapiens, they went ...

On the slopes of Mount Carmel in northern Israel, a small skull has changed the story of human history. Buried in Skhul Cave ...

Origins” Premieres Wednesday, September 17 at 9:00 pm Around 300,000 years ago, Homo sapiens emerged in Africa – one of at ...

Modern humans emerged roughly 300,000 years ago, but our genus Homo is much older. So what's the oldest human species on ...

Newly discovered fossils in Ethiopia show that Homo coexisted with Australopithecus 2.6 million years ago, rewriting the timeline of human evolution. Far from a straight line, early human history was ...

Within the limestone chambers of Tinshemet Cave, archaeologists have uncovered a prehistoric social network that’s got experts rethinking what they know about our ancient relatives. The cave, nestled ...

Neanderthals and Homo sapiens shared many similarities. But Neanderthals disappeared, while Homo sapiens evolved into modern ...

From left, the Cederberg mountain range in South Africa, the Tenere desert in Niger and savanna in South Africa. (Associated Press photos) WASHINGTON — Humans are the only animal that lives in ...

An international research team coordinated by Ca' Foscari University of Venice has identified the presence of indigotin—a ...