While the exact details are unclear, he explained, the prevailing belief for the last 20 years has been that modern humans first appeared ... (and beyond) during the period in question, making ...

During their ... timeframe represents the period between the translocation event (856,000 to 1.3 million years ago) and the most recent common ancestor of all modern human Y chromosomes, dating ...

An analysis of genomes from some of the earliest modern humans to live in Europe reveals their ancestors interbred with Neanderthals in one period between ... the two groups first met.

Trinkaus and his team now believe that after anatomically modern humans first emerged in equatorial ... their biology to wind up in South China during the Late Pleistocene. Either way, the ...

In other words, it’s not that our cognitive hardware has improved since the first behaviorally modern humans, just that we enjoy the benefits ... digest milk throughout their lives rather than only ...

By Carl Zimmer Scientists have revealed a surprisingly complex origin of our species, rejecting the long-held argument that modern humans arose from one place in Africa during one period in time.

During the Late Pleistocene, modern humans spread ... and the Americas also saw humans for the first time and the climate was generally cold. This era is best known for its massive ice sheets ...

The discovery of a rare Neanderthal rock shelter from the period before Homo sapiens ... conditions and how they thrived before modern humans appeared,” explained study author Dr Sofia Samper ...

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, ...