Ever since Charles Darwin detailed the mechanism of evolution by means of natural selection in 1859, scientists have had a way to understand how life on Earth changed over millions of years. Today, we ...

Human evolution: Facts about the past 300,000 years of Homo sapiens Who were the Denisovans, archaic humans who lived in Asia and went extinct around 30,000 years ago?

Earliest Ever Homo Sapiens Discovered in Morocco Forces Major Rethink of Human Evolution Published Jun 07, 2017 at 1:14 PM EDT Updated Jun 08, 2017 at 3:22 AM EDT The near-complete adult mandible ...

Human Evolution: Africa Exodus Made Homo Sapiens Shorter and Gave Them Arthritis. Published Jul 03, 2017 at 11:00 AM EDT Updated Jul 04, 2017 at 11:05 AM EDT.

These five skulls, which range from an approximately 2.5-million-year-old Australopithecus africanus on the left to an approximately 4,800-year-old Homo sapiens on the right, show changes in the ...

Newly published research appearing in the journal Nature (Ragsdale, A. P. et al., “A weakly structured stem for human origins in Africa,” Nature [2023]) proposes a new interpretation regarding ...

Evidence that cross-continental Stone Age networking events powered human evolution ramped up in 2021. A long-standing argument that Homo sapiens originated in East Africa before moving elsewhere ...