How did the earliest members of the modern human species get here? Who did we evolve from? How did we live? Where did we live ...

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

We are just one branch of a diverse human family tree. Aside from Neanderthals, who were they – and why did we replace them?

Homo sapiens, that has since gone extinct. So what does the science say? In particular, what does the genetic evidence, which didn't exist back when many early hominins were first discovered ...

For decades, the accepted theory of human migration suggested that Homo sapiens arrived to America around 15,000 years ago, and that they were the very first humans to roam North America.

The first-ever published research on Tinshemet Cave reveals that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens in the mid-Middle Paleolithic Levant not only coexisted but actively interacted, sharing technology ...

Scientists have long thought that only Homo sapiens, who first appeared around 300,000 ... the study published in the journal Communications Earth & Environment on Thursday.

Ancient Homo sapiens may have benefited from sunscreen ... a natural process that has happened around 180 times over Earth's geological history. While the magnetic reversal didn't complete ...

"Homo sapiens are currently undergoing a dispersal, which first started out of Africa ... and history on Earth, we can do that in outer space by following probes, satellites, landers, and various ...

The study found that humans left Africa, encountered and interbred with Neanderthals in three waves: One about 200,000 to 250,000 years ago, not long after the very first Homo sapiens fossils ...

Their legacy lives on in the genomes of most people on Earth, thanks to interbreeding between Homo sapiens and Neanderthals. New research is providing the most precise estimate to date of when ...