The evidence links human presence to Marine Isotope Stage 5a, a period of dramatic environmental shifts when monsoons from ...

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

According to a new study published Wednesday in Nature, ancient Homo sapiens developed the flexibility to survive by finding food and other resources in a wide variety of difficult habitats before ...

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

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

A little over 100,000 years ago, groups of prehistoric humans in the Levant suddenly began burying their dead, marking one of the most significant cognitive and behavioral leaps in the history of our ...

Around 42,000 years ago, Homo sapiens in Europe ushered in a type of prehistoric Renaissance known as the Aurignacian, ...

These Homo sapiens – nomadic hunter-gatherers who populated Western Europe between 11,000 and 35,000 years ago – carry with them a leather rucksack containing objects of value: mostly flint cores and ...

These Early Humans Lived 300,000 Years Ago—But Had Modern Faces. ... “They redefine the concept of Homo sapiens by creating this category of ‘early modern humans’ that I’ve never seen ...

When Homo sapiens appeared some 300,000 years ago, at least six other human species already shared the planet. Here, in the studio of paleoartist John Gurche, are model representations of those ...