A new study reveals that ancient Homo sapiens possessed a unique adaptability, thriving in diverse and challenging environments across Africa before their major dispersal around 50,000 years ago.

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 ...

Fossils once thought to represent the oldest dated Homo sapiens remains are now categorized as a subspecies of Homo sapiens: Idaltu. This raises the question: Are they a new subspecies or merely ...

For a long time, it was believed that the oldest Homo sapiens fossils were from East Africa, suggesting modern humans originated from that area. However, the oldest fossilized remains of Homo ...

Discover how chain ferns challenge the idea of irreversible evolution by reverting to primitive forms, as revealed in a groundbreaking study.

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 ...

Ancient Homo sapiens may have benefited from sunscreen, tailored clothes and the use of caves during the shifting of the magnetic North Pole over Europe about 41,000 years ago, new University of ...

This region served as a vital link between Africa, where Homo sapiens first appeared, and Eurasia, where Neanderthals and other human types lived.

World’s Oldest Human Burials Show Neanderthals And Homo Sapiens Shared Culture And Technology The burials mostly belong to hybrids of different hominin species.

For much of Homo sapiens ’ existence, there were negligible physical differences between them and Neanderthals, and the cultural differences are archaeologically imperceptible.

Logically, then, there must have been a moment when Homo sapiens became a distinct species. Yet that moment is surprisingly hard to pin down. The problem, for once, isn’t a lack of fossils.