Our genus, Homo, emerged at least 2.8 million years ago, while our species, Homo sapiens, dates back to at least 300,000 ...

Homo sapiens began in Africa but Neanderthals were Eurasian. Any miscegenation would have happened after sapiens left its ...

If Neanderthal women mated with Homo sapiens or Denisovan men, there was a high risk of newborns having neonatal hemolytic disease.

Homo sapiens' entry into Europe might have hastened Neandertals' extinction. Neandertals may have had a greater penchant for cannibalism than Homo sapiens.

The new study revealed that the ancient jaw named SK 15 was originally unearthed in 1949 in a South African cave known as ...

"We reveal how early humans -- known as hominins -- were ... at least 1.2 million years ago -- long before our species, Homo sapiens, emerged. Mercader, who studies human evolution, explains ...

Many researchers believe that it was early Homo sapiens that first adapted to life in the desert. However, a new study indicates that hominins may have adapted to desert life much earlier than ...

The term "hominin" refers to members of the human lineage that includes our own species, Homo sapiens, and its closest extinct relatives. Engraved prehistoric stone artifacts from the Manot (left ...

Scientists have long thought that only Homo sapiens, who first appeared around ... One of the world's most important prehistoric sites, Olduvai Gorge in modern-day Tanzania, was thought to home ...