The author of “Sapiens” says that for the first time in tens of thousands of years, humanity has competition. And it’s coming ...

In 2010, scientists found the first evidence of another hominin subspecies, known as the Danisovans. Now, they’ve identified ...

Humans are the only animal that lives in virtually every possible environment, from rainforests to deserts to tundra.

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That’s because these people bear many striking similarities to modern humans even though they lived well before what may be the oldest fossil evidence of Homo sapiens, from a site in Ethiopia ...

Deep in a South African cave, a revolutionary discovery is challenging everything we thought we knew about human evolution. In 2013, a trove of bones unearthed in the Rising Star Cave system unveiled ...

Discover interesting facts about the origin of the human species and what makes us different from our ape cousins.

The first-ever published research on Tinshemet Cave reveals that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens in the mid-Middle Paleolithic Levant not only coexisted but actively interacted, sharing technology ...

The study, published in the journal Nature, opens new tab and involving the oldest Homo sapiens DNA ever sequenced, gave a date range for the mixing of about 49,000 to 45,000 years ago.

Rewriting our ancient past. Despite going extinct around 40,000 years ago, the genes of Neanderthals are still found in humans today. The exact Neanderthal DNA percentage in H. sapiens varies, ...

“Speciation is a process, in which one parent species creates categorically different descendant species,” explains Chris. “In the context of Neanderthals and Homo sapiens, we need to regard ...