Facial growth stops at puberty in Homo sapiens. Humans differ from chimpanzees and Neanderthals in how their faces grow. In ...

The prevailing narrative in human history is that humanity emerged from Africa, which is true to an extent, but there may be ...

A 210,000-year-old skull from Greece’s Apidima Cave reveals the earliest known Homo sapiens outside Africa, pushing back the ...

A groundbreaking discovery in Greece reveals the first known Homo sapiens outside Africa, reshaping our understanding of ...

A recent study published in Nature Human Behaviour shows that a cave in central Israel suggest that Neanderthals and early ...

Subsequently, language might have entered social use 100,000 years ago. Our species, Homo sapiens, is about 230,000 years old. Estimates of when language originated vary widely, based on different ...

Homo sapiens, the species to which all modern humans belong, evolved in Africa roughly 300,000 years ago. Early Homo sapiens shared the planet with other human species like Neanderthals and Homo ...

Until now, at least 14 different species have been assigned to the genus Homo since it emerged in Ethiopia ... indicating that our species—H. sapiens—appeared on the scene as early as 300,000 ...

Original fossil (ATE7-1) alongside the mirrored right side by means of virtual 3D imaging techniques of the face of a hominin assigned to Homo aff. erectus found in level the TE7 of Sima del Elefante ...

Prior work suggested that during the mid-Middle Paleolithic (80,000 to 130,000 years ago), the southern Levant was home to at least three different groups of Homo: modern humans, Neanderthals and ...

On the right, detail of the cut mark. “Homo antecessor shares with Homo sapiens a more modern-looking face and a prominent nasal bone structure, whereas Pink’s facial features are more ...

In central Israel, a key archaeological discovery connects two different species of human — Homo sapiens and Neanderthals — not only crossed paths, but that they may have engaged in cultural ...